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Brazilians will not be pleased that their exclusive Brazilian social media will now have English-speaking users in it. Jokes aside, I hope the new users unders
by AlienRobot 2y ago
Brazilians will not be pleased that their exclusive Brazilian social media will now have English-speaking users in it.
Jokes aside, I hope the new users understand the risks of federation as they get on board, specially the privacy risks: whom you block, follow, and who follows you is public information in the platform.
- ck2 2y agowouldn't the work-around for that simply be like reddit where people have two accounts (or more) for work vs personal vs even more anonymous posting?
- AlienRobot 2y agoAs far as I know the only platform that really supports that is Tumblr, which lets you create as many secondary blogs as you wish with just one e-mail address (and Youtube if you count it). For every other platform users will be impeded by the fact they have to create a second e-mail to create a second account because they don't know how to use e-mail folders. You can't even switch accounts on Reddit which means you need to use a browser that supports switching cookie jars somehow. In summary, I'm willing to bet the average user just posts everything on a single account. And even if they used separate accounts, that doesn't change the fact that the blocks/follows of their identities isn't private.
- FireInsight 2y agoThis is mostly not a problem on the Fediverse (note: not Bluesky, since that is still pretty centralized). To make an alt for a different topic/identity/community/anything one can just pick another instance.
- FireInsight 2y agoThis is mostly not a problem on the Fediverse (note: not Bluesky, since that is still pretty centralized). To make an alt for a different topic/identity/community/anything one can just pick another instance.
- AlienRobot 2y agoThis is mostly not a problem on the Fediverse because its userbase is completely different.