Thanks for coming to the #39c3 "Privacy Ultras Meetup" in the early morning hours (14:30) of day 2. The room had seats for ~250 people and was completely packed, with several people sitting on the floor. Didn't expect this many people to join!
I guess it shows that there's a high demand in staying anonymous in a post-privacy, digital world. Please talk more about disconnecting your identity from payments, phone numbers, addresses, etc!
@giggls @frumble Von @Taler gehört aber wie alles #GNU-lastige verstaubt in ner Ecke ubd wenn's keiner Nutzt ist's tot.
Am Ende ist es nutzloser als irgendein random #Shitcoin den anders als die beschissensten Shitcoins (#Bitcoin, #Ethereum & #Solana) hat es NULL AKZEPTANZSTELLEN!
Das Problem ist nicht #Blockchain sondern dass alles außer #Monero reine #PostPrivacy - Kackshice ist!
@dbread @ticho @delta @torproject you mean #ScuttleButt, that #PostPrivacy #Web3 #shitshow?
To be clear: I understand that the racism on Fedi is a larger political problem—it stems from interpenetrating dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and all other forms of exploitation. There isn’t, there cannot be, a technical-only solution to the problem.
My suggestion in this thread will only cut off one particular mode of harassment. But I feel this step is worth taking, as one among many.
I also don’t see any advantage of the present model where each reply post can have a different visibility. If someone wants a different privacy level for their response to some post, they can always write a new post with the desired privacy level, include the link to the post they want to respond to, and tag the relevant users.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #PostPrivacy
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Of course, an abuser can start a new “followers only” or “mentioned users only” post tagging the victim. But they can do it even today, that’s another aspect of the problem, and it will need other solutions.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #PostPrivacy
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To put this differently, only a new post (the original post of a thread) should have the option to select privacy levels. Every single reply in a thread or a sub-thread should simply inherit the privacy level of the original post.
This will cut off the abusers’s ability to create pile ups in reply threads that are invisible to everyone bar the victim and the abusers themselves.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #PostPrivacy
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One technical solution to alleviate this problem would be to force replies to inherit the privacy level of the parent post. If the parent post is “public” or “quiet public”, then the reply also has to be “public” or “quiet public”.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #PostPrivacy
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When the victim mentions publicly that they are facing harassment, other Fedi users respond saying that they don’t see any abusive replies, and blame the victim for being too sensitive, or for not correctly using the moderation tools.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #PostPrivacy
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Basically, an abuser replies with post privacy level set to “followers only” or “mentioned users only”, and tagging only the victim and the abuser’s followers. The followers of the abuser then pile on, with their own abusive replies, all set to “followers only” or “mentioned users only”.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #PostPrivacy
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It is common knowledge that the Fediverse has a huge racism problem. Black users get massively harassed, and are driven off, never to return.
A common mode of harassment is described in this recent post.
https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/@aj/statuses/01K6Z6ZAXY1SB46X6PAFDKM9S9
#Fediverse #Mastodon #PostPrivacy
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🧵arguing that we should do away with “privacy level” options for reply posts (in case of Mastodon and Mastodon-like Fediverse platforms which follow that model), to eliminate the ability of racists to hide their abuse of black users behind “mentioned users only” replies.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #PostPrivacy
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Vielleicht auch für @scy spannend, ansonsten fürs geschätzte Klein-Bloggersdorf. #Postprivacy for graet justice! https://www.korrupt.biz/10457/blogwochen-wie-privat-darfs-sein-und-wie-privat-waer-noetig/
Yesterday I got an e-mail saying "we've noticed people from your company have been looking at this blog post about npm supply chain attacks... Do you wanna buy our product"?
And I'm a bit shocked and suprised that they know what company is looking at their blog posts.
@Wolf @leyrer Für #postprivacy am besten an @plom wenden ;)
@cobordism @hyc @voxel Noone claims that #Monero will help "#AbolishCapitalism"!
What is however evident is that only #PostPrivacy #Shitcoins can do #ProofOfStake as unlike #ProofOfWork it inherently necessitates #PostPrivacy as in all transactions and amounts are public.
Again: I call it "least worst" for a reason; not "great", "good" or even "okay"...
@t3n ja, und das Problem ist halt durch #Shitcoins und jene #PostPrivacy basierend.
Anders als #Banken wo die #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec nicht nur keine #Transparenz des Kontostandes bietet sondern welche auch explizit Pläne für solche Szenarien haben, wo Leute ggf. bedroht werden und gezwungen werden deren Konto leerzuräumen.
Albrecht von Lucke auf #stage1 1/x
"Das Ende unserer Illusionen: Vom Post-Post-Materialismus zum Post-Post-Militarismus"
Das Digitale entwickelt enorme #Putsch-Energie, begünstigt #autoritäre, #autokratische Haltungen.
Das, was Digitales an Fortschritt erreichte, wird am Ende als Ende der #Demokratie enden können.
#PostPrivacy = große Verheißung, alles wird geteilt.
"#Boomer" zu undifferenzierter Begriff, Spanne zu groß.
Politischer Slogan der 90er: Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen
