In #Flancia we'll meetIn a parallel timeline, the #wheel is still being rolled out because we haven't figured out the right opt-in procedure and there are people who think that two feet should be good enough for everyone.
Matt Noyes@Matt_Noyes good one! But that would be more like bots/people spamming at-mentions maybe, or forcing people to use AI somehow?
The AI-enabled client case we were discussing seems to be more like people trying to ban tea drinking because they e.g. don't approve of its carbon footprint.
What's wrong with opt in?
@Matt_Noyes it's great for many things! But it kills social features in particular, and it's been used for this purpose by opponents of new technology occasionally (see the Fediverse search example).
In practice this of course makes who controls the defaults (of an instance, a platform, a network) likely one of the big questions of our age, and one in which Social.coop should be interested of course.
Think of an alternate universe Fediverse: instead of profiles being public and followable by default, Mastodon could have defaulted to all profiles being private *and* requiring approval for following. The Fediverse would be much, much smaller and IMHO significantly worse in that case.
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