Posts by life@burn.capital
 (DIR) Post #A38hDutyLADHftPB2G by life@burn.capital
       2021-01-11T20:41:00Z
       
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       @stevenroose positioning those apps as identical just because none support xmpp federation feels a bit disingenuous to me. Only one is owned and operated by a nonprofit entity with no financial incentive to break their privacy promises, for example. I agree things would be better if they federated, but I think there are differences between trusting your data to fb (who you know is selling you out), the uae (who knows what they're doing), and a nonprofit with a pretty good track record.
       
 (DIR) Post #A38rWqmYscENwSbcHo by life@burn.capital
       2021-01-11T22:36:29Z
       
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       @stevenroose it's totally fair that they're functionally very similar!Does federation solve the problem of the entities running nodes needing money? It explodes trust issues because now you have to trust every endpoint & intermediary instead of just the one service.Maybe I'm just confused as to what problems you think federation would solve?
       
 (DIR) Post #A39M0av9Pjts3pir7A by life@burn.capital
       2021-01-12T04:17:59Z
       
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       @stevenroose Even if you run your own instance, it's only true that you don't have to trust other providers if you talk only to people on your instance.  As soon as you want to talk to someone on a different instance, you're forced to trust that instance to a degree.  Sure, the trust is distributed around, so you aren't exactly forced to trust just one provider, but frankly having to trust a bunch of random providers just to have real conversations doesn't seem like a big improvement to me.