This is the sort of superficial dismissal I was referring to.

“There are no safety issues because you can plead your case publically and incite a mob!” isn’t exactly as trust-inspiring as you seem to believe.

No they allow admins to decide that. Users have no control. User activity is fully public and cannot be controlled for safety.

Frankly, I don’t think the privacy model of the fediverse is workable at all and it doesn’t seem to be developed and maintained by people who understand or care about safety. The centralized systems are much safer for users because you only have to trust the admins of the centralized servers.

Fediverse’s Achilles heel is trust and all the convo and discussion about it is extremely dismissive and superficial about the realities of how the centralized systems became they way they are–much safer against stalking and mobs. Fediverse mostly gets away with this by being small and fringe.

The fundamental flaw is laid bare every time a site defederates another about because of safety issues. It’s a tacit concession that the federation model and implementation is not safe. If you have to defederate everyone to ensure user safety, then why bother with the fediverse in the first place? This is the core problem with the fediverse as it exists today.

A few podcasts I listen to have switched to calling their bluesky handles out instead of their twitter handles in their outros. I’ll probably install it and delete ex/twitter when I get an invite.

He also shrieked about bots, and now he parades his own around.

Infinity (Android) is making a go at a paid subscription.

Are you certain it is the exact same comment or post? I think people are deleting everything (via scripts or whatever), but everything isn’t actually everything because of the way reddit hides content in certain situations. When people have posted screenshots it has been content from subreddits that had be set private during protests and reopened. Reddit annoyingly hides your own content from yourself in many circumstances.

I’m not saying these undeletes definitely do not happen, but people have needed to delete content on Reddit for reasons the pre-date the protests. The legal risks to reddit for them to be caught restoring content that a user deliberately deleted is significant. So unless a whistleblower or compelling evidence emerges Occam’s razor will go with reddit bugs and “features”. Everyone knows reddit is bug-ridden.

The less obvious answer is Roko’s Basilisk.

Basically it’s what they have decided to disclose to law enforcement. So at best it tells you the baseline capabilities of law enforcement.

I thought that at first too based on the icons, but if you read the text it reveals Telegram has the ability to provide IP address (if they can be convinced to).