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>where announcements are made by world leaders and major corporations, control of these accounts could have repercussions That control should not be solely in
by riffic 7y ago
>where announcements are made by world leaders and major corporations, control of these accounts could have repercussions
That control should not be solely in Twitter's hands.
Those leaders and orgs need to take a strong look at authenticity via ActivityPub self-hosted on their own namespaces.
- rtempaccount1 7y agoThat's a view for sure, however it seems that some world leaders and corporations have decided that the trade offs are worth the risk...
- reissbaker 7y agoSelf-hosting and security don't necessarily go hand-in-hand. For laypeople, self-hosting is usually worse: they don't know what threats to protect against, and even if they knew what to protect against they wouldn't know how. And Twitter is where the audience is.
- riffic 7y agoBy self-hosting I would propose the Gmail/G Suite model. Managed service but the organization controls users and the DNS.
- mlthoughts2018 7y agoThat’s not usually known as “self hosting”
- cameronbrown 7y agoNo but owning the namespace is important. It puts you, not Twitter, in the driver's seat.
- pjc50 7y agoJack's account is self-hosted on a website he runs. It just happens to be Twitter dot com.