I'm not find with harming someone, but everyone who owns a private jet can be tracked using the same public information... if one knows the appropriate identifying information for the plane. If I buy a private plane, you can track my flights too. Anyone who wants to stalk Musk likely already knows how to track him using the underlying data.
Because they've not ever done a data request from Reddit, I imagine. Reddit stores a COLOSSAL amount of information on you. The bits that they are willing to provide are concerning enough; I do wonder what they have that they don't reveal. For example. your ENTIRE history of IP connections seem to be stored (because there's a use for a 3 year old IP record, you know,) all of your chat messages (no way to delete those either,) associated accounts (I am guessing this is "accounts we think are you too, but I don't know...) ...so I'm not sure why Lemmy / Kbin / etc get the hate here.
I think Kbin and Lemmy could be better about disclosure, but there's nothing inherently shady about the way they're set up. Downvotes being revealed, I am torn on. I tend to lean toward private, but I see arguments either way.
Given that I've been going in an autoresponder loop trying to get some of my copyrighted stuff removed from spam accounts, Musk can suck 1000 tusks. Ah well, at least their failure to abide by the DMCA might be a fun little diversion.
If they're smaller creators or fan friendly, maybe someone could reach out to them to help get them set up? More audience for them is good, and if they think they'll get value out of being here they'll create accounts.
Concur on the edit history feature / log. I'd also support an optional "rollback and lock edits" feature for mods so bad actors couldn't just edit to seed discord.
I'd support a delete feature for posts, but people do need to understand that content released into the fediverse is out there for good, more or less.
The best anyone can do right now is to migrate off of Twitter entirely. As long as Musk is in charge (or in charge through his puppet CEOs) the site will be a cesspool of toxicity and hate. I'm honestly not sure why reputable people are still using the site... guess the view and media exposure are better than doing the right thing and leaving?
@UnluckyBoot3467 This is an interesting read for sure, but I see no concrete evidence in the essay that suggests that Signal is insecure. Signal was never anonymous; users who have Signal accounts (myself included) are well aware that their Signal ID is tied to their phone number. If Signal were not offering the E2EE promised, that would be huge... but nothing in the evidence or the article suggests that that this the case.
To be sure, I think Matrix great. But I have to wonder at the agenda behind the article... indirect initial funding from the US government at the outset, even absent malfeasance on Signal's part, is bad, while direct current endorsement of Matrix by the French government is... good? to be clear, I consider neither problematic on their own, but there doesn't appear to be much in the way of logic behind that reasoning.
Overall, I'd like to see us move away from centralized control of communication.. and Matrix might in fact be that eventual solution. But that doesn't mean that Signal isn't safe for those who understand that it is not, generally speaking, anonymous to use.
Maybe! Anyone taking action on this to stalk or threaten is wrong, though, howevermuch a fuckstick little muskie is.