Well, I mean, there is a lack of privacy. That's kind of how the platform exists architecturally. I just don't find that to be a problem, per se. It's a social platform, which makes sense to me for everything on the protocol to be "open" to one degree or another. Not everything has to be securitymaxxed.

Here's one post about it. I'm not one for direct messaging on social media personally. And on centralized services it's true that your direct messages can be seen by employees if they're sufficiently motivated or by court order, hacks, that sort of thing. But on mastodon both the administrator of your instance and the admins of the instances of the people you're messaging can see your direct messages. Since an instance can be set up quickly by just one person, there's higher likelihood of access. That person may have no qualms about accessing private info, they may have insufficient resources for proper security, or to fight legal efforts to access information. A large company will in theory have more concern about reputational risk if it's uncovered they've accessed private information than some individuals will. I know many people running instances take great pride and care in what they do, but that's not always true.

yes.

Isn't picts-rs just something that runs on one server and just handles converting and resizing images? The new remote media storage stuff could run that, but the point is to allow more centralised servers so not every instance needs to individually store, process and transmit media.

Not just media, things like searching the Fediverse can be handled by a dedicated server, shared (or not) by multiple servers. Also spam detection, link preview generation, etc.

More of a VODCast? It's me installing his software. Hoping to work with Maho this Sunday with FediProfile. :D

So I don't know how it'd be listening to me read some docs and install the software and talk about it. But I'd love to know if it works as an audio podcast as well. :D I mean, people love ASMR, so maybe this is nerd ASMR? :D LOL

Also, thank you all so much for your work. This is INCREDIBLE. All of this. I'm so honored to be along for the ride. I've been thinking about FASPs and the potential is massive. Far more than just attempting to lower the cost for server admins, deduplication, whatevver you want to call it.

Private messaging, sharing content, subscription access to premium content. The FASP could be the underpinnings of entirely new systems of data sharing that literally isn't possible on the modern web.

So seriously. This is incredible. Thank you ALL. Everyone at Mastodon, but everyone not at Mastodon as well.

This goes to anyone else reading this as well. Thank you to ALL OF YOU. You're here. That's why these developers are building this. We're all chipping away at the shackles. We're going to break free. And I'm so humbled to be a part of this with all of you. Thank you all!

Just realized, maybe I should link it. lol After my rambling post. https://tubefree.org/w/hbodNSptVE541KGZ7mVJrX