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Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform (www.irishtimes.com)

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Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform::The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said

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[–] Zak 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ActivityPub in particular is radically public. It broadcasts what you post to a bunch of other servers run by anyone from IT professionals to kids, which could be anything from vanilla Mastodon running in a datacenter to an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden slow implementation of half of ActivityPub running on a hacked smart toaster. It's for things you want to show to the world.

We have several good options for end-to-end encrypted communication, such as Matrix, which is open source and federated, or Signal, which several of my elderly relatives managed to figure out without coaching.

[–] Serinus 4 points 10 months ago

Even my comment here is being broadcast to every computer used by any person reading this comment.

If you're posting on public social media, your shit is public. It was not very different on Reddit.