RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pheonix/116221805295722939

#Meta only exists for two reasons:

- Money
- Info gathering on everyone for reason 1

@stux Maybe also:

- unchecked rich people narcissism

@promovicz @stux

That’s actually a little interesting. How many super rich people just slop information between each other through and an encryption on these platforms.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @stux My point is slightly different: I think that Mark Zuckerberg is a willingly malicious narcissist who established his business on mass-data robbery. That's the narcissism I'm referring to.

@promovicz @stux

I fully agree with your assessment. I was just wondering how many of these super rich people have compromising material hang around in their direct messages?

I’d rather suspect that when they rip direct messages out that all the content will simply disappear because if they’ve done it correctly, they can’t access the clear text.

People with more money than sense, may not even pay attention and keep on using DM

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @stux Quite a few, probably? I'm going by the "we're good on opsec" incident. It's certainly possible that they're trying to spy on each other.
@promovicz @GhostOnTheHalfShell @stux
I'm kind of wondering here, but given enough of shift in political wind this feature might come back as a premium paid feature.
@boon @GhostOnTheHalfShell @stux Hm. I see design variants where this could scale, socially. Let me not explain... no need to tell the machine (!).
@promovicz @GhostOnTheHalfShell @stux
I think the machine knows already but yes, let's not ;)