Mastodawn

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I don’t think this is “Old man shouting at cloud” - it’s a different (more lively) way of being
& it’s good to read about it. 🙂 Expands our possibilities.

Pushed me to look up IRC (Internet Relay Chat) (seen the acronym often but never knew what it stands for, but pretty sure it wasn’t International Red Cross 🫢). Learn that it’s a “text-based chat system for instant messaging… designed for group communication in discussion forums [channels] but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and data transfer including file sharing.
[more here incl. refs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC]

Say it again: Expands our possibilities. 😁

#IRC #InternetRelayChat #acronyms #instantMessaging #text-basedChat #GroupCommunication #discussion_forums #privateMessages #dataTransfer #FileSharing

IRC - Wikipedia

Lyndis Feb 6

As someone who hasn't been in the fediverse for long:
What is the easiest way to private message someone?
When I go to someones profile there is no 'private message' button and starting a woot and then @ 'ing the person is so awkward because in the end I am never 100% sure if I have the correct user.
I find this really unintuitive and uncomfortable with a high chance of doing it wrong.
Is there a better option?

#fediverse #wafrn #new-here #help #private-messages

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Jupiter Rowland Dec 27

@unattributed 𓂃✍︎ @Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @Social Web Foundation @Sovereign Tech Agency @Bonfire Ideally, one day, the highly advanced permissions system available on Hubzilla (based on Zot, ActivityPub optional), (streams) (based on Nomad, ActivityPub optional) and Forte (based on ActivityPub) would be cast into one or multiple FEPs.

This would solve this issue by not only controlling who receives a DM, but also who is permitted to see the DM. In combination with FEP-171b Conversation Containers (which was invented on (streams), inherited by Forte and backported to Hubzilla), the permissions of the DM would be inherited by all comments and replies to the DM with no way of ever changing these permissions anywhere in the conversation.

See, if I send a DM to Alice and Bob, then only Alice, Bob and I are permitted to see the DM. Also, only Alice, Bob and I are permitted to participate in the conversation, and Alice, Bob and I can see each comment and reply, but only the three of us are permitted to see them. The entire conversation has the exact same permissions all over, inherited from the initial DM.

Anyone of us can mention Carol all we want. But that does not give her permission to see anything in the conversation, not even the comment/reply that mentions her. Once the initial DM is out, its permissions are set in stone, and it's also set in stone that any and all follow-ups in the same conversation have the same permissions as the initial DM.

This does not even require encryption. That said, at least Hubzilla does offer encryption on top of the permissions system; however, it's only compatible within Hubzilla AFAIK.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #FEP_171b #ConversationContainers #Permission #Permissions #DM #DMs #DirectMessage #DirectMessages #PrivateMessage #PrivateMessages

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Patrick Breyer

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#Germany will vote #against the #EU proposal for #ChatControl, which would allow the #scanning of #privatemessages, even on end-to-end encrypted platforms. The proposal, aimed at protecting children, has been criticised for infringing on civil rights and privacy. https://therecord.media/chat-control-eu-germany-will-not-support-law?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

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