If you are a reporter, I do not see how you could use or trust that platform at this point.

Any sense on if the Twitter engagement is real people?

I worry with a profit motivated place like that that they’re incentivized to trick me, to make me feel like it’s a more vibrant place than it is in reality.

Although I agree that is how things work now, one could imagine a different approach:

For instance, I could maybe control who my content gets federated to. That is, if I decide I don’t particularly want my content blasted to certain places that my instance would not call any blocked ones with my data.

If that causes some issues with ActivityPub, you can imagine encrypted blobs that could only be opened by others with a shared key.

We don’t need to achieve perfection out of the gate, to me these questions are worth discussing so that we can build out more high quality tech for the fediverse, let’s not try to just immediately shut down discussion.

of course, switching it back might not be so easy… 😂

grep

honestly the lamest and funniest bit.

Perfectly ties the whole thing up in a bow: can’t even technically manage a domain name change.