For the record, I am a certified freight-forwarding agent and logistician. ๐
> but it fails in other ways because its whole purpose is to induce confession and make everyone essentially open themselves up to being covertly attacked.
Yeah, see, what you call "confession", other people call "making and keeping friends by exchanging personal information". ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
You can have intimacy and anonymity, but not both. I don't come onto social media to shout into the void. I do it to socialize.
I agree that the data retention problem is an issue, but we're solving that with stuff like communities and groups. But new arrivals will still often have to "out" themselves in kind 1 to get invites to those smaller spaces.
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everything we put out there is a handle. the difference here is that it's primarily our peers who are grasping them, not some big anonymous system that pretends to be protecting us or entertaining us but is actually selling us. i use the expression "confession" because the mainstream social media are essentially normalizing something that has a very dark history, and someone needs to be pointing that out.
i also have opinions similar about teh data retention problem. that's why i've been banging on about paid relays and low friction subscription models for so long.