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Techies discussing Twitter: “Open source, unmoderated, federated protocols are always superior, it’s time to get rid of Twitter, I hate Elon, etc.” Techies dis
by subjectsigma 3y ago
Techies discussing Twitter: “Open source, unmoderated, federated protocols are always superior, it’s time to get rid of Twitter, I hate Elon, etc.”
Techies discussing email: “What a crazy and insane Wild West, outdated, insecure and hard to use, we need to move on”
- bin_bash 3y agoGeneralizing people into "techies" doesn't necessarily mean individuals have inconsistent opinions.
- subjectsigma 3y agoOk would it help you if I replaced “techies” with the names of my friends and coworkers who you probably don’t know?
- addicted 3y agoThere’s nothing inconsistent about believing open protocols are better and still believing a specific open protocol is not better. Especially when that specific protocol is a 40+ year old one created when the creators couldn’t even imagine the world we live in right now and has barely changed since then precisely because it has been so successful.
- subjectsigma 3y agoI think federated protocols are better too, but Mastodon is literally replicating many of the problems with email one-for-one: - identity management is hard - you place lots of trust in the admin - it’s hard(-ish) to pick up your data and move - it’s very hard to pick up your identity and move - you technically can host it yourself but only a few diehards are going to bother - moderation is mostly up to you, except when you can’t talk to someone you need to because your admin decided to start a flame war with another admin and de-federate - E2EE is server specific - no way to tell yet but eventually 99% of users will likely coalesce around a handful of servers The protocol though, it’s just better! See also: plank in your own eye