Jyoti MishraJun 22, 2023

If email was invented now, it'd be something like:

WeMail™ by Meta

and be totally walled. You're either on it or not and if you're not, no email addy for you! You just have zero email service.

IRL, people understand that you can have email provided by Gmail or Microsoft or Apple. Many servers! That doesn't hurt their brains.

The fact that so many think Mast is "complicated" is not because they're stupid but because walled-gardens have ruled for the last 15+ years.

Time to change that.

Show threadsmells of bikesJun 22, 2023
@Jyoti I've used the "well how much care did you use in choosing your email server" with pretty good results in talking to people about choosing a mastodon server, because most of the time they don't even remember how they chose it, as it in theory doesn't matter.
(in practice of course it matters a lot, and that's also a useful conversation to have.)
Show threadJyoti MishraJun 22, 2023

@smellsofbikes

This is sadly fitting for me as I've been on Gmail since 2005 and now I want to make sure all that history of mine isn't held hostage by Google.

Show threadsmells of bikesJun 22, 2023
@Jyoti Same, and now I'm the proud owner of a proton email account, specifically because of reading about google handing over gchat logs about people's health care to law enforcement.
Show threadJyoti MishraJun 22, 2023

@smellsofbikes

Fuck me! :(

Show threadsmells of bikesJun 22, 2023
@Jyoti It appears to still be possible to minimize how much info we leak...
but one of these days I'm gonna be living in a little shack in the mountains that doesn't even have a phone line, I think.
Show threadJyoti Mishra

@smellsofbikes

Haha, tbh, I am quite relaxed about personal stuff since I'm a songwriter and musician: my job is basically revealing my private life to total strangers.

That being said, I don't want insurance companies to scan my DNA or anyone to know about my immediate friends or family.

Jun 22, 2023 at 2:15amWeb
Show threadsmells of bikesJun 22, 2023
@Jyoti Having recently had a stalker problem, I'm definitely on the pretty tense side of this issue, but I grant that for inherently public figures the calculus is bound to be different. BTW I just read a bit, and, I sure like your music. Thank you for making the world a better place.
Show threadJyoti MishraJun 22, 2023

@smellsofbikes

Awhh, thank you! That's very sweet of you to say!

If I'd had the maths, I would have been a physicist or a coder or both.

But music is my thing. I've known that since I was 12.

It's the same thing for me that religion is for the zealot.

Show threadsmells of bikesJun 22, 2023
@Jyoti It's better for the world than zealotry, though!
Show threadJyoti MishraJun 22, 2023

@smellsofbikes

Very sorry to hear about your stalker. Been through that too and had the counselling which helped, a little. :/