Michel Salim @michel_slm@social.privacytools.io

@norztech @strypey also note that Telegram group chats are not #E2E encrypted anyway, only 1:1 chats are and not by default. I use Telegram for convenience but not really for it being super secure by design.

@Wetrix Rustic! Where is this?

@Wetrix well, yes, agreed. It's always a slippery slope. Same with China experimenting with surveillance techniques in Xinjiang first, or US companies doing that in apartments where poor people live, or colluding with the police to sell surveillance devices like Ring.

As they say in Germany in the 30s, "first they come for the..."

@Wetrix if you're a non-citizen traveling to the US (for visit, work or study) they've been asking for all your social media credentials for some time too.

Best way is to make everything containinbg PII private. And be selective about who you share with.

@szbalint interesting approach. Out of curiosity, ActivityPub clients self-identify, right? I wonder how long it would be before a client allows overriding its equivalent of browser user agents.

@OneSubtractOne I hope so too! It makes nouveau developers' jobs easier anyway. The dream is to have people who need CUDA to not have to use the proprietary driver ...

#CJR understandaby skeptical about #Facebook getting back in the #news business

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/facebook-apple-news-licensing-content.php

@greyor @4deuces name recognition, likely. I suspect we'll see his poll number gradually decline so by Iowa we might see a more representative number.

He can't stay under Obama's aura indefinitely.

@Wetrix mind you, regardless of political bias I'm not going to cry over Twitter being less popular. My beef is over attention economy mechanisms in general though (it tends to promote sensationalism just to keep users glued to the screen).

And the privacy hostile data practices that go along with it.

@Wetrix here we are. Twitter PAC donation goes 53% to Republicans last year

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2018&strID=C00548065

@Wetrix eh you'll be surprised how many GOP candidates that the left hates get money from Facebook. It's 50-50.

Now Twitter might be different (I doubt it) but given tech employees think their companies suck up to conservatives and conservatives think they're persecuted, both can't be entirely right

@Wetrix given how often Facebook has gotten this wrong against left-leaning figures (not familiar with Twitter's situation but it's probably similar) it's likely automation or human error though.

Also:
The myth of social media anti-conservative bias refuses to die https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/platform-bias.php

Golly, can't believe I didn't notice the simpler way to verify via keybase until now. Got to do this tomorrow! Too bad one of my Mastodon account is on a v2.6 instance (2.8 is needed)

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-proofs-for-mastodon-and-everyone