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You have to trust your node admin and the admin of any node you talk to (ie your friend's node)

• amelius 9y ago
  Obviously, I have no control over what nodes my friends are using. Can I whitelist/blacklist nodes? And how is the situation we're arriving at better than having a single party, in this case Facebook, who is to blame when things go sour?
  • Joeboy 9y ago
    From a personal privacy point of view it seems significantly worse to me, but I guess the positive spin would be that there isn't a single party that can simultaneously blackmail / breach the privacy of a billion people. Although my counter spin would be that in the event of one of these decentralized things going mainstream, a large player would end up being what gmail is for email.
  • tscs37 9y ago
    Atleast on mastodon you can blacklist. Whitelisting nodes is counterproductive to what federation is trying to achieve. A decentralized network means that if things go sour, the cost of switching is small, similar to an email account. If my mail provider fucks up, I point my domain to another one and I don't even bother.