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I really don't see why decentralised social networks are any better privacy-wise than centralised. If big corp has financial incentives to gather and use your d

I really don't see why decentralised social networks are any better privacy-wise than centralised. If big corp has financial incentives to gather and use your data, then smaller servers do, too. At least big corp is a legal entity that you can sue.

r3trohack3r 3y ago
Equity is far more important than access control. You login to Netflix and they deliver you a video file. Millions of people have access to Netflix's video files. But access is The Pirate Bay. Rights are Netflix. Just because you have access to a car doesn't mean you have a right to your car. Just because you have access to a house doesn't mean you have a right to the house. Just because you have access to a video doesn't mean you have a right to the video. Just because Big Corp has access to your data doesn't mean they have a right to your data. Your data is your data. It's time we remember that and build equity back into the web. And then we need to work back from equity to access control to enforce equity.
evbogue 3y ago
The original Scuttlebot protocol docs are sadly no longer accessible via a website, but we still have archive.org! https://web.archive.org/web/20230416142631/https://scuttlebot.io/docs/basics/encryption.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230416142631/https://scuttlebo... Scuttlebot users encrypted messages onto their append-only log towards recipients using their ed25519 private signing key converted to an ed25519curve encryption key. This made it possible to send private messages that you could open if you had the private signing key that the messages were directed towards. Back in the day you could actually send messages using "Private Box" to up to 7 recipients! by appending them to your feed of course. https://web.archive.org/web/20230322134617/https://scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/private-box.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230322134617/https://scuttlebo...

r3trohack3r 3y ago

Equity is far more important than access control. You login to Netflix and they deliver you a video file. Millions of people have access to Netflix's video files. But access is The Pirate Bay. Rights are Netflix. Just because you have access to a car doesn't mean you have a right to your car. Just because you have access to a house doesn't mean you have a right to the house. Just because you have access to a video doesn't mean you have a right to the video. Just because Big Corp has access to your data doesn't mean they have a right to your data. Your data is your data. It's time we remember that and build equity back into the web. And then we need to work back from equity to access control to enforce equity.

evbogue 3y ago

The original Scuttlebot protocol docs are sadly no longer accessible via a website, but we still have archive.org! https://web.archive.org/web/20230416142631/https://scuttlebot.io/docs/basics/encryption.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230416142631/https://scuttlebo... Scuttlebot users encrypted messages onto their append-only log towards recipients using their ed25519 private signing key converted to an ed25519curve encryption key. This made it possible to send private messages that you could open if you had the private signing key that the messages were directed towards. Back in the day you could actually send messages using "Private Box" to up to 7 recipients! by appending them to your feed of course. https://web.archive.org/web/20230322134617/https://scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/private-box.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230322134617/https://scuttlebo...