Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

"Many bad things happen in households but we do not require people to live in houses with glass walls"

David Davis MP (UK) nails the key problem with the #OnlineSafetyBill – the powers massively overreach into our rights to #privacy and #freedomofexpression without proper balance.

If Tumblr does join the fediverse and adopt support similar to Mastodon it will likely overwhelm most instances in terms of activity processing/media storage and moderation

In addition, due to their prominence they will attract bad actors leading to them blocking instances, further fragmenting the fediverse

It paints a picture where they only federate with huge/trusted instances, a curated collection of centralized instances

Hope I’m wrong, encouraging corporations to adopt warrants caution

The #OnlineSafetyBill returns to Committee today (UK). The Bill is disproportionate in trying to be a silver bullet for all social ills.

Adam Afriyie MP raised the point in the debate last week that there are other ways of catching criminals without breaking end-to-end encryption.

#e2ee #privacy #encryption

Surveillance is the problem.

Not privacy.

Musk is a one man harassment factory though; huge footprint on social media and in mainstream press means he has the ability to create these firestorms single-handedly.

even walsh and raichik took a while of agitating and building momentum to get bomb threats out there.

usually these campaigns escalate; they start with designated accounts on twitter and then get picked up by others in the network or get escalated to fox and carlson.

one frightening thing about Roth being forced to flee is how instantaneous it was, and how it's solely conceived of and implemented by Musk himself. 1

If you’re wondering about Mastodon’s impact, Twitter is now automatically marking links to mastodon as “sensitive” (aka dangerous) and forcing users who get them to “appeal” the claim. In case Elon didn’t seem desperate enough for you already…

With all the new mastodon instances, I'm wondering how many admins are prepared for law enforcement (or other) agencies to come asking for people's information. In many cases the law enforcement is not entitled to this information, nor needs it, but how many admins know what to do and how to be sure they only respond to legitimate requests? And even what their own rights are in these situations? (Which will vary according to local laws.)

Experimented with reach on Twitter vs Mastodon by sending the same “canary” post on both platforms. I saw about the same engagement on both, despite having 4% the followers here.

Feels like the value of Twitter’s network is overestimated. If you’ve been there 10+ years, I bet most of your followers are inactive, and it’s harder than ever to get your tweets viewed because of the algorithmic timeline. Mastodon might be at the point where it delivers the same value. At least in my circles.