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The whole issue with facebook is that they: 1. Follow you from site to site, scooping up all the data they can on you. 2. Allowed all of that data to be acces
by crowbahr 9y ago
The whole issue with facebook is that they:
1. Follow you from site to site, scooping up all the data they can on you.
2. Allowed all of that data to be accessible not just by you opening up to a bad actor app, but by any of your friends opening up to a bad actor app.
Calling it "overly open APIs" is misleading at best. The point of an API is that it is a public interface. If Scuttlebut has proper permissions controls then they wont have these problems... and because they're open source those problems can be scrutinized rather than remaining opaque.
- maemilius 9y agoMinor nitpick: API stands for "Application Programming Interface". There are plenty of private APIs in use right now all over the world.
- underwater 9y agoHow can Scuttlebutt prevent (2) from happening? If you share data with your friends, how can you know that they haven't installed an app that will slurp up that data wholesale? The only solution would to be to enforce reasonable app usage in the client, and then require all your friends to use that client. That seems to defeat the purpose of a decentralised protocol.
- gregknicholson 9y agoNothing can prevent that from happening. DRM cannot ever work. Facebook can't stop “friends” from slurping data either. The SSB protocol has other design goals beyond “be Facebook but less evil”; for example it works seamlessly offline.