Should all posts on the Social Web be public?
#EvanPoll #poll
https://cosocial.ca/@evan/113493375133660340
20 ▌ Strong yes 50 █▎ Qualified yes 129 ███▎ Qualified no 311 ████████ Strong no
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mastodon's 2 week history delete has always made sense to me. people hording old posts, for what?
I agree with the majority. Strong no. I'm glad that we have such fine-grained control of delivery in ActivityPub, and I hope that more servers start supporting features like delivery to lists.
@evan
Public is an excellent default position for posts, but would be a terrible requirement.
That being said, a select ActivityPub server software/ ActivityPub instance that only allows […]
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Qualified Yes. If it's the *Social* Web then it includes society, ie. the public.
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Strong no.
Ability to frictionlessly break smaller private groups and 1-1 convos out of public threads is critical
@evan hell no! Maybe it could be different if we had reply controls.
@evan Strong yes - the stuff that's private is more of a lower case "w" web. Discord is on the web, but it's not really on the Web.
@evan unqualified no
@evan Is there a choice? I don't see how federation works without it.
@evan I'm strong no because I think it assists in avoiding context collapse if you can sometimes set the context. Plus I think some level of DM/PM ability in any online platform enhances […]
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