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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Employers and romantic partners can be especially put off if they can’t find any trace of you online. And if they really care, they’ll dig harder to find that time where you declared bankruptcy, or you got arrested for public intoxication, or where someone deep in your past said something negative about you, and that’s all that will stick in your mind when they think of you.

    For me personally, having a simple, but relatively barren social media presence is worth it to avoid the persistent diggers, who will find something about you if they don’t see anything public.

    And besides, everything about most of us is already stored in Apple or Google’s datacenters. There’s no hiding from the deeply intrusive data collection those companies do. So having some simple information out in the open is likely better for privacy in some ways.

    If you disagree with my take, that’s fine, I just wanted to give another perspective.












  • I believe the only instances that should be defederated are corporate, self-harm, profanely illegal, and political extremist instances.

    Anything further than that and the whole network is going to devolve into a series of micro echo chambers.

    Or maybe it won’t, maybe the vast and free instances will flourish while the restrictive instances die out.

    Either way, trying to control a community based on wishy washy ideology is not a good look.

    I think in these early days we’ll see a lot of power drunk admins who are too eager to push the button, just because they can.