Michael StancliftTwitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”
WiseOldOwl@vmstan the big one I heard today was how DMs weren't safe on this site because the aren't encrypted and moderators and others can see them. They aren't really private.
@WiseOldOwl 100% true but also Elon reads all your DMs over there.
It’s like the argument people had about IT people being able to read other peoples emails. I don’t even like reading my own email. Why would I want to read yours?
fear is not a Weltanschauung@vmstan @WiseOldOwl
"yes but on twitter you get fired if you read people's dms if you're a twitter employee"
they can only fire you if they somehow catch you. It's the same consequence of being discovered to have betrayed community trust in a trust-based system, just codified in a corporate document for people to whom trust is an amusing anachronism.
"yes but on twitter you get fired if you read people's dms if you're a twitter employee"
they can only fire you if they somehow catch you. It's the same consequence of being discovered to have betrayed community trust in a trust-based system, just codified in a corporate document for people to whom trust is an amusing anachronism.