As someone that doesn’t post on any piefed instance, why is it bothering me? I’m not on the fediverse to be tracked or authenticate myself. If I wanted that bullshit, I’d join Reddit, X or one of Meta’s apps. There needs to be safeguards around features not harassing people. Especially people that don’t even use their instance.
When you post in any community, your posts come to piefed.social. I need to decide whether to accept them, or not, or classify them as automatically posted, as nsfw, as spam, and so on.
That’s such a weird overreach. On the fediverse where there’s an active majority against the surveillance state, why is piefed trying to create one online? I’m literally a guy who likes to share things for various reasons and I’m being stopped and searched. It’s not cool.
On the fediverse where there’s an active majority against the surveillance state
This is a fundamental and major misapprehension of how the Fediverse works. Not trying to be rude, but I’d suggest you ground yourself in that stuff to better comprehend. Kind of weird to me actually that someone who’s been here 2+yrs is evidently unaware of such basic operational methods.
Do you understand how federation works, though? Unlike Reddit for example that’s run off their huge banks of unified servers, it’s absolutely key that posts and comments spawn out to all the 1000’s of volunteer instances with as much unity as possible. It has nothing to do with “surveillance.”
And if you’re worried so much about something like that in the first place, you’d probably be better of participating in closed communities and instances. Or just somewhere else, out of the public eye.
where there’s an active majority against the surveillance state, why is piefed trying to create one online?
Sending you a DM asking if you’re a bot is not, by even the wildest of imaginations, creating a “surveillance state”, and honestly I have serious questions about your motivations for even suggesting such a ridiculous thing.
I don’t see the creation of any surveillance state here. The data collection, as it exists, is already something that happens (and must happen, as a function that is, by design, both public and federated). Somebody can pull most information used here from a public-facing API; that’s how clients render discussions and how instances automatically communicate with each other.
Basically anybody with a computer could have scraped your (and many other peoples’) data and come to similar conclusions about a wealth of posting, commenting, and voting patterns. I assume that, if anything, an admin doing this responsibly is a sign of a good one and not a malicious one.
As someone that doesn’t post on any piefed instance, why is it bothering me? I’m not on the fediverse to be tracked or authenticate myself. If I wanted that bullshit, I’d join Reddit, X or one of Meta’s apps. There needs to be safeguards around features not harassing people. Especially people that don’t even use their instance.
When you post in any community, your posts come to piefed.social. I need to decide whether to accept them, or not, or classify them as automatically posted, as nsfw, as spam, and so on.
If I’m unsure, I ask the author.
That’s such a weird overreach. On the fediverse where there’s an active majority against the surveillance state, why is piefed trying to create one online? I’m literally a guy who likes to share things for various reasons and I’m being stopped and searched. It’s not cool.
This is a fundamental and major misapprehension of how the Fediverse works. Not trying to be rude, but I’d suggest you ground yourself in that stuff to better comprehend. Kind of weird to me actually that someone who’s been here 2+yrs is evidently unaware of such basic operational methods.
Fine, let me rephrase:
Within my interactions on the fediverse, where there’s an active majority against the surveillance state…
Do you understand how federation works, though? Unlike Reddit for example that’s run off their huge banks of unified servers, it’s absolutely key that posts and comments spawn out to all the 1000’s of volunteer instances with as much unity as possible. It has nothing to do with “surveillance.”
And if you’re worried so much about something like that in the first place, you’d probably be better of participating in closed communities and instances. Or just somewhere else, out of the public eye.
It’s just a question. And to answer it, all you needed to do is click once and then you would have seen this message
Would you have preferred it if there was no link to click and you needed to type a reply instead? That’d be fine with me.
I think we’d prefer if you didn’t harass users on other servers with this BS.
Sending you a DM asking if you’re a bot is not, by even the wildest of imaginations, creating a “surveillance state”, and honestly I have serious questions about your motivations for even suggesting such a ridiculous thing.
I don’t see the creation of any surveillance state here. The data collection, as it exists, is already something that happens (and must happen, as a function that is, by design, both public and federated). Somebody can pull most information used here from a public-facing API; that’s how clients render discussions and how instances automatically communicate with each other.
Basically anybody with a computer could have scraped your (and many other peoples’) data and come to similar conclusions about a wealth of posting, commenting, and voting patterns. I assume that, if anything, an admin doing this responsibly is a sign of a good one and not a malicious one.
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