Post Aw6PimqdphvKrbgfhI by khm@hj.9fs.net
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 (DIR) Post #Aw5FveCG7H4p64KfVw by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
       2025-07-13T07:36:19Z
       
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       @dalias Everyone who has e-mail has that issue.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw6Pik8xt7nYTZElLE by srslypascal@chaos.social
       2025-07-13T07:00:52Z
       
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       @dalias What's the difference to the same scammers just sending people an email? Most people use the same email address for everything, so it's trivial to find out what email address to send the scam to.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw6Pil7aFkHtVZbApM by khm@hj.9fs.net
       2025-07-13T07:13:53Z
       
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       there's no reason for an activitypub implementation to even collect email addresses.CC: @dalias@hachyderm.io
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw6Pim3MmuVaOmdJtQ by srslypascal@chaos.social
       2025-07-13T09:14:48Z
       
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       @khm @dalias If people fall for these DM scams, what are the chances of those very same people noticing that the scam email must be a scam/phishing attempt because they never actually entered their email address when they created their Mastodon account several years ago?The majority of people are not as tech savvy as you might hope, and doesn't even distinguish between the activitypub protocol and implementations of that protocol, let alone different instances/servers of an implementation.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw6PimqdphvKrbgfhI by khm@hj.9fs.net
       2025-07-13T20:28:14Z
       
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       sorry, having a hard time taking you seriously.  is this a real opinion or just sealioning?  because this "well that slight improvement might not help this other, even dumber idiot I just invented" stuff combined with your implicit assertion that you know more about "the majority of people" than I do is starting to smell pretty bad-faith over hereif you don't collect email addresses, then you can safely say "any email claiming to come from us is fake"it removes ambiguity.  ambiguity that currently exists because webshits have a habit of outsourcing account management to email.  removing email from the platform and loudly announcing it helps people understand.CC: @dalias@hachyderm.io
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw6pU9vwJjDKvUqpEm by Adam@social.lein.us
       2025-07-14T01:49:45Z
       
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       @dalias Agreed. Everyone's private communications method preference should be an external link in the profile, but rarely used unless agreed to publicly just like we did in the newsgroup days 30 years ago.