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  • Why would heads roll? Those heads are being rewarded by the Boards of Directors.

    Congress has no incentive to legislate this, voters don't prioritize privacy, financial interests that benefit from the status quo include the largest companies in the USA.

  • From the Mozilla Monitor Terms of Service:

    If you are located in the United States and have a Monitor Plus subscription, OneRep receives your first and last name, email address, phone number, physical address and date of birth in order to scan data broker sites to find your personal data and request its removal. OneRep keeps your personal data until you end your Monitor subscription in order to check whether your information shows up on additional sites, or has reappeared on the sites you’ve already been removed from.

    If you have any other questions regarding personal data or our privacy practices, please contact us at compliance@mozilla.com

  • Yeah BlueSky has a lot of control over the network but I wouldn't say that email isn't federated because Google controls a lot of the email network.

    I was pleasantly surprised to see that Bluesky released a personal data server implementation openly. But now that they did, it looks like the AT protocol network minimally qualifies as federated.

  • Bluesky is now a federated network, just incompatible with ActivityPub.

  • I just made an account with nothing more than a throwaway email address. So a phone number is not required.

  • The blog post didn't make that clear, but I see that it's repeated in other blog posts and on the Discord server.

  • It will be interesting to see what Friendica devs come up with!

    I've just started looking at the AT protocol. What sort of WTF things are in there?

  • The more I'm reading into the docs, the more convinced I am that the AT protocol is better than ActivityPub.

    I wonder if there cound be a link aggregator and forum style implementation of the AT protocol, the same way that Lemmy did with the ActivityPub protocol.

    I wonder what sort of bridging can be implemented between AT Protocol and ActivityPub implementations.

  • I get the skepticism. I'm not all that optimistic about Bluesky myself, but they clearly already made an original thing and other "techbros" have made original things many times.

    The good news is this is all openly designed and implimented so it could be used for something potentially better.

  • I haven't dug into the details, but there seem to be a lot of blog posts and extensive documentation to figure it out.

  • It's unclear if that's temporary (But I can't imagine them manually adding self-hosted accounts forever).

  • Maybe @rimu@piefed.social can chime in here. I don't host an piefed instance.

    I do know that it is in beta and hasn't addressed its moderation goals yet.

  • Without a doubt in my mind, yes. You would have that effect on the OP. But not just OP, everyone else reading as well.

  • PHP has been having a resurgence in popularity because it works.