Comment by verdverm
2 days ago
Most people right now do not want their social media data in world/anonymous-read mode nor want Ai accessing it and doing things with it.
2 days ago
Most people right now do not want their social media data in world/anonymous-read mode nor want Ai accessing it and doing things with it.
Too late for that
There's always the future. I stopped using ATProto after the revelations that they hid their VC raise from the community for almost a year (and some other things, straw eventually breaks a camel's back) - and almost all social media, which is a (mild) trend aiui.
Setting aside contemporary political dynamics, there is also the possibility for robust data rights laws that can change the game.
Nothing about this requires world-readable data, privacy can be its own layer. FriendFeed[1] did this well back in the day: it aggregated your feeds and let you control who saw each one.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed
I agree, that's just not where ATProtocol is (currently only available in world/anonymous-read mode). Personally, I find the permission proposal rather lacking (ACL vs the advancements / learning since) and user requested features will require building auth enhancements at the app level, thereby creating a form of centralization.
> thereby creating a form of centralization.
Fair point on app-level auth, still far less centralized than the status quo, where the data, the permissions, and every function on top all belong to one company.
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