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by Alec Muffett
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A Primer for End-to-End Encryption
A “Duck Test” for End-to-End Secure Messaging
Why Privacy will always be more impactful than Safety
Muffett on Passwords
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federation
Bluesky users discover that even “federated” & “distributed” platforms exhibit “lock-in” due to “network effects”; and “cognitive dissonance” ensues…
2025/09/24
QUESTION FOR DISCUSSION: where FOO is a federated protocol, can one ever be truly “deplatformed” by BAR, where BAR is an instance of FOO?
2025/02/10
Re: “Findings Report: Governance on Fediverse Microblogging Servers”
2024/08/21
Threads and the Fediverse – A Smarter Battle Plan to Protect the Open Social Web | Tim Chambers @timothyjchambers
2024/04/12
Marco @polotek@social.polotek.net shares a glorious epiphany regarding trust, safety, platforms in general, & Mastodon in specific
2024/02/14
Nice little explainer thread from David Thiel on the Bluesky Mastodon Bridge Brouhaha
2024/02/14
Reading this and remembering the (subset of) people who told me that it was irresponsible to release a password cracker to USENET in 1991 because it might be used by bad people to do bad things
2024/02/14
“Opt-out is a terrible default and should be reconsidered” | Mastodon users throwing a huge fit that their content may be copied to Bluesky by bridging software
2024/02/14
Mastodon seems to be a lot more fragile than USENET; the whole PubSub thing seems to assume better connectivity than old-style distribution permits
2023/11/06
When you are using federated social networking you start to need new tools, like “something to track whether a friend’s server has disconnected from the federation without telling you.”
2023/11/01