Matt QueenHello. OK. I give. I'm sick of twitter. I'm looking for cool people to follow. Point me at good accounts?
My interests are #design #neuroscience #3dimaging #datascience #softwaredevelopment #research #uiux #hci and #art
*_jߍyrope@Everyday.Human Derek @Matt Queen Brutal, how people put their contacts up publicly as food for spammers. On Mastodon these things really have consequences, though first of all for admins, who subsequentially get waves of crap to defend against, while often being much underfinanced. Doesn't seem clever, really.
A list like that should be invitation-only.
A list like that should be invitation-only.
Everyday.Human Derek@jrp
I don’t doubt it but all of it is publicly availiable.
It’s more for people who want to learn. I can see how it can be used nefariously however mastodon is pretty open.
I was told by professors when I joined, how essentially just pretend mastodon is like the porch to your house.
People can see everywhere the porch to your house, no one can come in you don’t let in.
So apologies if I offended anyone trying to help someone in academia, research.
I don’t doubt it but all of it is publicly availiable.
It’s more for people who want to learn. I can see how it can be used nefariously however mastodon is pretty open.
I was told by professors when I joined, how essentially just pretend mastodon is like the porch to your house.
People can see everywhere the porch to your house, no one can come in you don’t let in.
So apologies if I offended anyone trying to help someone in academia, research.
@Everyday.Human Derek Sure, the benefit's clear and i don't think, that this is an offense to anyone else. Just noted, that while all this info is publicly available, it usually is scattered or privacy-protected, both of which make such info unattractive to spammers etc.
@jrp It's an interesting point of view. I hadn't really considered privacy issues of follow lists—and I see what you mean about spammers building graphs of accounts for harm/wrong-doing. But, I do wonder if obscurity poses any deterrent. Filtering/classification would seemingly be the goal.
@Matt Queen I think the main deterrent here is concentration of scattered accessible information versus concentrated publicly accessible information, the latter being an obvious data collection point not just for let's say "positively interested" parties.
Edit: The main point is, that anything very useful is probably useful to entirely different people with entirely different interests. This should be taken into consideration.
Edit: The main point is, that anything very useful is probably useful to entirely different people with entirely different interests. This should be taken into consideration.