Emotional_Series7814

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 25th, 2023
  • Emotional_Series7814@kbin.cafetoFediverse@kbin.social•Twitter users try to comprehend the Fediverse, they can't.
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, I think what’s going on here is “new platform good, nonadopters bad” and people wanting to believe that this Twitter user is actually confused by us, not making a joke, because we’re special smart kids for adopting the Fediverse and anyone who does not is a dummy-dumb-dumb-doodoo head. Of course, not in such crass words, or so obviously laid out, otherwise we’d all catch that kind of thinking for what it is immediately. This team good, that team bad. Fun in sporting matches, not so great when we actively want people to come here and ditch Twitter, and when we get condescending towards other human beings.

    That is my honest personal interpretation but I could be wrong :P I’m also affected by my own biases and maybe I am seeing this pattern where it doesn’t actually exist.

  • Emotional_Series7814@kbin.cafetoFediverse@kbin.social•The fediverse is a privacy nightmare
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    1 year ago

    “Direct Message” and “Private Message” indeed mean different things. In practice, because both involve messaging one individual user, a good deal of people (including myself) still expect them to be functionally the same. Part of this functionality we expect is that there is an attempt to make these messages less visible and easy to access than the reply I just sent to you right now. This expectation is validated on Twitter:

    Direct Messages are the private side of Twitter. You can use Direct Messages to have private conversations with people about Tweets and other content.

    on Instagram:

    Instagram DMs are an in-app messaging feature that allow you to share and privately exchange text, photos, Reels, and posts with one or more people.

    by Cambridge Dictionary:

    a private message sent on a social media website, that only the person it is sent to can see

    and by the fact that if you go on anyone’s profile, you can see post history, comment history, and boosts, but not a list of who they tried to send an individual message to or what those messages were. I believe that more technical people could retrieve such messages, that the messages are not totally secure, but to my layman eyes, I do still expect that there was at least an attempt to make these messages private.