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ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year agoIt’s not as black and white as you make it. The options aren’t “perfect security” and “no security”.
The option that most people that experience regular harassment want is “enough security to minimise the shit we have to deal with to a level that is manageable even if it’s imperfect”
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
While you’re theoretically right, we’ve seen in practice that nobody really offers even the imperfect privacy you describe, and on decentralized systems it only becomes harder to solve.
A Facebook style centralized network where you explicitly grant access to every single person who can see your content - is as close as we can get. But nobody is trying to make that kind of social network anymore, because there isn’t much demand for it.
If you want a soapbox (Twitter/mastodon/bluesky, Reddit/Lemmy/kbin, Instagram/pixelfed, YouTube/toktok/peertube) then privacy is going to be a dream, especially if decentralized.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Vulnerable folk are looking for community, not a soap box. The goal is to connect with other folk whilst being as free as possible from harassment.
It’s absolutely possible to achieve that without perfect privacy controls.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Privacy and being free of (in-context) harassment aren’t the same thing. Your posts can all be public but your client can filter out any harassment, for example.
If the goal is privacy so that people who aren’t in the community don’t know that you’re in the community, and don’t know what the community is even talking about, I’m skeptical that it’s practical. Especially for a decentralized network, I think that the sacrifices needed to make this happen would make the social network unappealing to users. For example, you’d need to make it invite only and restrict who can invite, or turn off any kind of discovery so that you can’t find people who aren’t already in your circle. At that point you might as well just use a group chat.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
They’re related. Often, the ability to limit your audience is about making it non trivial for harassers to access your content rather than impossible.
That’s not the goal. The goal is to make a community that lets vulnerable folk communicate whilst keeping the harassment to a manageable level and making the sensitive content non trivial to access for random trolls and harassers.
It’s not about stopping dedicated individuals, because they can’t be stopped in this sort of environment for all the reasons you point out. It’s about minimising harassment from the random drive by bigots