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@dansup See, this is why I think throttling social discovery was a bad idea.

Because it creates this fiction that, just because you can’t find something on Mastodon, you can’t find it elsewhere.

Of course people feel their privacy is violated. And yet, all this time, it wasn’t private from Google and OpenAI.

@atomicpoet @dansup I know I'm in the minority here, and this is a hot take, but I've always thought the popular fediverse opinion on data consent was stupid, and caused a worse user experience. At the end of the day, you are posting on the INTERNET. Sure you can belly ache to fedi devs that care about the community, but unless your posts are behind a secure form of authorization/authentication, any bad actor can just slurp it up and you will be non the wiser.

@atomicpoet @dansup we should be building tools to create better experiences, not griping about and the sort. There will always be people not following the rules. If you care about privacy, don't post PII, and don't post anything you wouldn't mind falling into the hands of big tech. In the age of LLMs they will do everything they can to circumvent any protection implemented by fedi devs and they have way more resources. UX > Fedi social norms 100% of the time IMO.

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@atomicpoet @dansup ultimately I believe that the devs can do a lot to make people feel safe, and the tools that they built are amazing and I'm super thankful to every fedi dev. But the person that is most likely to protect data from falling into the wrong hands is the user.

There is no magic bullet for security and every individual needs to hold themselves and themselves alone, personally accountable for their data according to their threat model. No dev can do that for you.