apophis

2023-11-15 23:22:18

i was a teenager during the era most normies would consider the "wild west" era of the internet

i was much, much safer on the world wide web then than i am now

there was less money involved, of course

the lack of vetting of identity meant there were less "security" records that could end up in a leak and a doxx

we all remembered the rules of internet safety and hadn't been tricked by facebook and twitter into leaving this disgusting invisible-to-humans trail of identity vulnerabilities

we can recreate that older environment elsewhere on the web and for a lot of people fedi is an important part of that recreation

the freedom to shitpost and not be subject to these centralized authoritarian power grabs is essential to that safety

Hunter Killer exceptionel

2023-11-15 11:54:49

really devaluing the word "safe" to have a completely meaningless emotional definition instead of using words like "offensive", "needlessly vulgar", or other words that already exist in the English language. You describe what you've written, with a word that does not mean what you want. I understand not using safe space as a term due to its loaded-ness, but abbreviating that into "safe" is a bar horrible choice.
Also the titles of section 1 and 2 are factually incompatible with each other, stating "there's no safety built into the fedi", followed by a "there is safety built into the fedi". A blunder with words, which indicates some mental mishap. For anyone aquainted, it makes it harder to take your text seriously, if your introductory text alone is low effort and high emotion.