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This article on decentralization as conspiracy-thinking magnet is extremely weird https://www.wired.com/story/the-hidden-dangers-of-the-decentralized-web/
I feel like there’s a real story there on paranoia and bitcoin and ct but like…the author uses the example of a decentralized network telling people to write down their security info and keep it safe as evidence for paranoid/mistrustful thinking. And Wired published it.
Is locking my front door also evidence of “separatist”/conspiratorial impulses?
@vivtek No one tell them about online banking
@kissane Tired: you don't need encryption if you have nothing to hide
Wired: you don't need to write down your encryption keys if you have nothing to hide from Google
Isn't it just long-standing normal practice to have physical copies of important papers that you keep in a safe place?
Isn't that why physical safes exist?
@kissane I found it strange too. Comparing mistrust of things general considered private, like financial transactions, with a place you post for all to see? I thought the point of federation was to break a monopoly on social media and regain control of feeds and blocks
@kissane Wired having a big week. https://defector.com/how-not-to-interview-a-transportation-secretary
@waldoj Am I remembering that he went on to spread “ideas worth spreading”?
@max Different guy, same name!
@waldoj haaaaaa this whole time I thought it was one guy
@kissane Having read the rest of this article, I think it might be the dumbest thing I've ever read in Wired. Walling things off into decentralized silos instead of using solid, trustworthy, presumably non-walled edifices like Meta or Twitter? And the editors let this past?
@vivtek Yeah, pro-platform academic capture was not a thing I was expecting tbh