In which I put my head in the lion’s jaws and write 2700 words about privacy and full-text search on #mastodon: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/30/Mastodon-Privacy-and-Search
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ongoing by Tim Bray
@timbray I don’t think instance owners will be able to comply with the bureaucracy. It strikes me that privacy focused people should actually be on a different platform.

@BudGibson

It's not clear to me why the desires of people who have been here for years should be dismissed by someone who joined last week.

Perhaps, it's the people who want full search that ought to be on another platform.

@zx I just don’t think you have the protections you think you do. The open web, where we are now, is not a private platform. If you want privacy, you need another platform.

@BudGibson

I know precisely what protections that web can and can not provide. Or do you also think I have access to all your credit cards and passwords?