That’s not poison. Thats helping them profile you. 🤔

It’s funny how often things stay the same in information technology just due to inertia. Yet the overall pace of change has been relentless.

It does, but not in the sense that it “repairs” them or whatever. There are plenty of natural fibers and styles of clothing that would be a wrinkled mess eventually if they were not ironed.

You may be use to synthetic fabrics or blends of synthetic and cotton that don’t wrinkle in the same way. And by synthetic, I mean petroleum based fabrics.

Aww you’re no fun. Stop with the nuance.

OpenGraph tags in particular? Or do you mean something else?

Lots of great software ideas out there. It’s always the execution, availability of resources, and the reality of capitalism getting in the way.

I think that guy might be an impostor.

The ycombinator guy calls this “parallel media” and talks openly about how it’s intended to replace governments with tech companies.

Wow, so signal ranks second worst in “safety” with a 2. While discord has a 4.

So it’s worse than discord at dealing with unwanted CSAM uploads? What a wild ranking system this guy has.

How many of these have moderation issues? Like, unwanted content uploads and stuff. How many expose you to accidentally hosting illicit content?

😭

Often times people are incorrect about specifics, but correct or valid in the point they were attempting to make.

It’s obnoxious to deal with analytical or biased people who can never look past the surface level.

Platforms should beheld partially responsible. They enable creators like this through algorithms.

I don’t disagree. We need better tools for this.

The problem is making sure these tools are not used as tools of the state for tracking.

I think it has become increasingly clear that letting platforms off the hook has been really bad for society across the world across many dimensions. We need something in the middle of zero responsibility and full responsibility.

Parents, right? That’s always the solution to platforms.

Edit: all the ironic upvotes. I was being sarcastic. Parents won’t keep their predator sons and daughters off Roblox.

It’s good that actual studies are being done and published about this.

I’m not putting it aside to dismiss the idea that it’s bad. I was doing so just for the sake of conversation. You’re really overreacting to conversation.

This age verification stuff is an invasion of privacy, and we should have a better answer to the claims that it is the only way to put in protection on the platform side. “Parents” is not the answer to the platform’s responsibility here as a facilitator who profits from facilitating.

Age verification systems are invasive and harm privacy AND it’s weird that we think platforms should be all ages with no serious/effective barriers. It’s weird that we just act like there is no solution, and bemoan parents.

I was quite clear about switching the topic focus.

Ok, let’s say it is. They just want to invade our privacy. Now set that aside.

On a separate topic: What’s an alternative solution for the “there’s porn on the playground” problem that discord has? They are participants in it, they are facilitators. They shouldn’t be immune. Giving platforms a pass on things like this is pernicious. Giving platforms a pass is why Elon Musk thinks he can get away with CSAM generators.

Right, it’s weird that parents let kids play on platforms that have porn on them. Something needs to be done, maybe we should go after the parents instead.

Or is the answer just saying parents should do something and then do nothing? We need a clever solution that does not involve sharing proof of identity… any ideas? Banning adult content completely would work too.