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1. Thomas Willingham (beardyunixer@soc.beardyunixer.com)'s status on Saturday, 29-Apr-2017 11:38:40 UTC Thomas Willingham
   Mastodon privacy isn't very different to what we colloquially call Public but not public, and in fact, we - and by we I mean every project with Zot - handle it in pretty much the same way as they do. They give you warnings in big letters that you're being stupid, we put it on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard". In both cases, you're just saying "if you think this is a privacy setting, you're an idiot".
   
   But remember back in the old days when everyone with any form of Zot was mostly technically competent...lots of us used it. It stopped being used as better privacy controls were enabled (or more accurately, as early bugs were fixed - but the point is, as these features became ready for the prime time).
   
   So, maybe Mastodon isn't being as brave/stupid as they appear to be.
   
   Maybe we're seeing the birth of pstatus.
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   • atenorio (atenorio@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2017 16:25:33 UTC atenorio

     • ParaNoix
     @beardyunixer, @paranoix and I were recently seeing how misleading the "privacy" settings of Mastodon are. He is a #Mastodon admin and really "techie", still he had to try all settings and be amazed that all his statuses were shared in the public timeline of the GNUSocial instance I (one of his followers) use.
     
     
     I would support a pStatus protocol, but I feel that lying to your users about their privacy settings is not the way to go