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1. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2017 01:51:27 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

   • Mr. Big Red Engine 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
   I'm strictly against tricking, fooling and otherwise lying to users, re: »Software can help: Self-destructing messages, UIs that prevent screenshots, follower-only Toots on Mastodon.»
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2017 01:53:03 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

     • Mr. Big Red Engine 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
     @HerraBRE Also, what kind of platform culture do you want to grow? An open platform where people act nicely and transparently? Or one where you may accidentally trip up and broadcast your "follower-only" post to non-followers because you were tired and forgot to click a checkbox or whatever?
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2017 01:59:46 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

     in reply to

     • Mr. Big Red Engine 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
     @HerraBRE I honestly don't understand this "gotta have 'em all" regarding features. Instead of trying to copy Facebook and Google+, I believe we should build something that works on its own terms. What's next "private photo albums"?
     
     Please, let's enlighten users and encourage + support tools that do their jobs properly.
     
     Instead of having your private communication _on_ the platform, how about using federation as an authentication method to _access_ it somewhere else? #OpenID works great for logins on third party servers to access more private data. Automating and consolidating everything under a single roof (heard about centralisation?) is not an answer.
     
     </rant>
   • Tomas SA2TMS (tomas)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2017 03:04:11 EDT Tomas SA2TMS

     • dewoo ❎
     @dwmatiz snapchat is built on the idea. then they sell the ability to re-view snaps back to you!
     MMN-o ✅⃠ repeated this.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2017 03:24:22 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

     • GNU Social
     • nepfag
     @nepfag Implementing as a plugin wouldn't be a problem. You could always run a non-federating !GNUsocial instance because you _want_ a private setting with follower scopes and whatnot.
     
     I just think it's not appropriate to patch on pseudoprivacy in a federated web. Better to educate about and improve other tools more appropriate for the task(s).
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2017 07:31:51 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

     • Mr. Big Red Engine 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
     @HerraBRE I think you're interpreting me too harshly.
     
     Consider cross-country skiing vs. slalom. You go cross-country skiing and come up to the top of a hill, your actual path continues along the track but you see other people going downhill. You approach the initial slope but I stop you and inform about the dangers.
     
     Here, continuing the metaphor, I explain to you that slalom equipment have safety measures that make sure that if you fall, the skis will be released and you won't break your ankle or whatever. I then offer you a slalom setup with {skis,helmet,boots}, the proper equipment for the job, and off you go happily and safely down the hill.
     
     In both sports you're using skis and gliding on snow - but the equipment is very different for good reasons. Broad skis, heavy boots, quick-release and a full-head helmet are impractical when going cross-country skiing. Likewise, long thin skis without quick-release are incredibly unsafe in a downhill race.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2017 07:32:26 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

     in reply to
     #skiingmetaphors #nordicexplanations
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2017 07:42:47 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

     • GNU Social
     • Mr. Big Red Engine 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
     @HerraBRE I totally support the feature in a closed network (private, non-federating) which !GNUsocial can be used for as well.
     
     If the feature is used in a federated environment where people choose instances by random from a huge list I would only accept its use if it has a big <marquee>WARNING</marquee>
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2017 10:24:34 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

     • Mr. Big Red Engine 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
     @herrabre I absolutely think being a good neighbour is the right thing here.