"The threat model and economics of federated systems devolve to concentrating trust in the hands of a few, while missing out on the scale advantages of purely centralized solutions." This article is making me have a think.https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/federation-is-the-worst-of-all-worlds/ …
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I wanted federated models like mastodon to "win" but every time I use them it takes a lot of energy to convince myself that they can. So I'm guessing they won't. And the more I think about it and experiment, the less I want them to.
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Email is federated, so existence proof it can work.
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💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 💫 Retweeted 💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 💫
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💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 💫 @generativist4/ Meanwhile, I'm a sophisticated computer user who thinks endlessly about the harmful interactions between social media, surveillance capitalism, and the attention economy. I care about privacy — my own and everyone else's. And...I still use fucking Gmail.Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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Extremely yup. This makes the point of the original article... and yet you can still exit, without losing your data or social graph. I think this is still much better than if email were centralized like Facebook is centralized.https://twitter.com/gordonbrander/status/1204915375596457984 …
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Oh! I like that as a concept! Put self-extrication up there with the right to be forgotten on the list of things I would like baked into social mediums.
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