Notices by Andreas F. (af@cas.social)

@aral And all the bad actors will stop their bad tracking completely as soon as Mozilla introduces their good tracking. After all, they are working with Facebook on this, so it must be good.

@aral As if to prove that #Mozilla is completely wrong with its approach to data traders because there is no such thing as "good tracking": In Germany, several media outlets have "legally" obtained and evaluated the data sets of a data broker. It is turning into a bit of a scandal.

https://cas.social/@af/112801199958992059

#DatabrokerFiles #security #privacy

@aral From the 0.7 million votes coming from Turks/German-Turks (sorry, don't know the correct translation) living in Germany, more than two-thirds voted for Erdogan. They live in Germany "without having to answer for the consequences of their choice" (says Mr. Özdemir, a federal german minister).

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/erdogan-feiern-deutschland-100.html

@aral @Gargron I do agree that design can shape behaviour but I disagree that QTs by themselves can transform nice behaviour into toxic behaviour because I don't think it is a "defining/major feature" (for lack of better wording).

I think your thought experiment is not suitable as a comparison. Because I think twitter's algorithm, moderation rules and commercial intensions (to name a few) shape the behaviour of twitter users way more that QTs.

@aral @Gargron "quote tweeting" does not create toxic behaviour. Toxic people behave toxic and should be reported/blocked/banned if they do, no matter what technology/functions they use.

But the software itself should not be restricted just because some toxic people also use it.

However, I do agree, some opt-in setting per toot with options who is allowed to QT (world/all, only followed, only mentioned, none) would make sense if it would be implemented.

@aral Probably the same ones who don't know the difference between the #Fediverse and #Mastodon, or the difference between the #Internet and the #Web.

#journalists