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An Open Letter Calling for the Resignation of Eugen Rochko (Gargron) from Mastodon Development (seedy.xyz)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 years ago (1 children)

"Forks and alternatives would have more visibility control than Mastodon, leading to privacy issues." Does anyone care to expand upon this as a problem? FOSS means forks are an option but I'm missing where the privacy issues come from.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I have the same question, and also what it means to "have more visibility control".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I think this refers to the fact that Activity Pub as a protocol was not designed with privacy in mind, but rather pubic content. So Mastodon could add some visibility features in their UI, but other ActivityPub speaking software would not necessarily understand or also add these features to their software and thus expose supposedly more private (or rather less visible) content from Mastodon users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

They explain it in the next sentence:

They won’t know that they can post publicly to their followers without their posts showing to everyone using the unlisted visibility.