Yeah that really could end up being problematic!
Actually not sure how that’s going to go.. presumably it’ll work the same way search engines do cos it’s kinda like holding a copy of public data like they do…
dan
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Aside from a handful of crazies, most people fully understand the health implications of being overweight, even (perhaps especially) overweight people. The reason some people are fat is definitely not because they’re not aware of that, and being a dick to fat people isn’t going to make them less fat.
So you wanting to see people treated as less than human for something that is very unlikely to affect you in any way at all says much more about you than it does them.
It sorta depends on the relationship between federated servers. If your server acts as a data controller and the servers it federated with act as a data processor, then yes indeed your admin would have to contact all those servers to get that data removed.
But I don’t think that’s what the relationship really is. I think your server publishes that data effectively publicly. At that point other servers can take a copy if they want (ie each would be a controller). So you’d have to make a request to each server to get the data removed.
Think about it like this, if you allow some print publication to print your name for some reason, some other companies might keep a copy of that data. Eg an archival company, or perhaps something less nice like a sales leads company. The publication doesn’t have a responsibility to contact them all. Even if, say, they have some relationship, like federation, or for example archival company has a subscription to the newspaper.
So if you want that data deleting you’re going to have to contact every sever that has it.
I didn’t know you could move Mastodon servers and retain your followers. Very cool.
I think they’ll do quite well, it’s a perfect landing spot for Twitter refugees not willing/techie enough to take the leap to Mastodon. Y’know, the normals. Particularly if it’s well-integrated with Instagram.
Is that a good thing? Ie do I want to see Twitter fail more than I want Meta to not be successful…? That’s a fucking tricky one!
Depends if it’s Spez or not. If not then… tentative welcome I guess.
If it is Spez then, well, pitchforks it is.
Holy fucking shit what a ridiculous country.
https://www.rawstory.com/google-twitter/
Yeah they were already doing that, I imagine he took a look at how many inbound visits come from Google and quickly U-turned
Oh cool I thought it was my phone being shit.
Wow, not only did they try to do an astroturfing job on their own site, but they also fucked it up. I don't know why I'm shocked, they fucked everything else up lately.
On a related but different subject, did you know that even before the blackouts Reddit were paying people to make random low effort posts in various subreddits?
Have a look at this user's posts prior to the blackouts: https://old.reddit.com/user/WelshCai/
And read this (which was posted after he got accused of being a karma farming bot), note the admin comment confirming it: https://old.reddit.com/user/WelshCai/comments/130zbw6/i_am_a_community_builder_for_reddit/
Community builders are "vetted and paid by Reddit for their time": https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4418715794324-What-is-the-Community-Builders-Program-
Despite claiming they work with mods, the mods of those subreddits don't seem to be aware of this, as evidenced by this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Leeds/comments/138gi40/reddit_community_builders_please_read_details/
Who knows how many people they pay to try to influence the site?
Yeah seems that way.
Turns out if you make a high quality product with care and passion based on what your users want, then they’ll love it and be happy to pay for it. Who knew?!