Mastodawn

Dear Fedi friends,

Good morning from #FOSDEM!

Yesterday was pure magic: I loved every single presentation in the Social Web devroom, with devs and Fediverse champions sharing their inspiring work.

I didn’t post anything because I was so absorbed in all the talks (plus @liaizon and @Sascha did a fantastic job chronicling the event).

I can’t stop thinking about one of @benpate’s closing slides:

“Every single thing you do to improve the Fediverse is a win for humanity”

YES! 🙌

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Fedi Fox Feb 1

@_elena @liaizon @Sascha @benpate

#FOSDEM #Fediverse #Privacy

We need to be careful with this Fandom-ization of the fediverse. Fandom creates blind followers and makes critical thinkers potential enemies of the groupthink.

Mastodon is a giant dangerous experiment that does NOT protect user data and has no e2e encryption!

This is NOT a win for humanity, but creating the next big brother network masked as "cool b/c federated".

We need to build privacy aware networks now!

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻Feb 1

You’re very right. The Fediverse is not a cure-all, complete solutions for the problems we face. But it is, at least, a platform the we own. It will take many good decisions to turn it into what we need it to be.

On privacy, have you seen this? https://emissary.dev/e2ee

We’re working to bring real privacy, and truly private messages on the Fediverse. It’s a small step, but I believe it’s in the right direction.

@fedifox @_elena @liaizon @Sascha

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FinchHaven sfba

cc @fedifox

"Mastodon is a giant dangerous experiment that does NOT protect user data and has no e2e encryption!

This is NOT a win for humanity, but creating the next big brother network masked as "cool b/c federated"."

I hate to actually Be That Guy to Well Actually go there, but maybe there are some people on #Mastodon / the #Fediverse who have been online long enough and paid enough attention to actually be able to care for ourselves

Ya think?

Or nah?

Personally, I had a UNIX shell login account on SDF dot org back in 1991

WAIS, Gopher, Archie, Veronica, UseNet

NCSA Mosaic about 1993

What were you doing online in 1991?

cc @benpate

cc @_elena @liaizon @Sascha