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Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Fri Sep 4 06:22:17 BST 2020
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It was thus said that the Great Caranatar once stated:
Tom writes:
Ounce you publish something to the internet there is no retracting it.
This is one of the first things I was taught the first time I used the
net. Alongside never using your real name on the net unless your
publishing something.
This seems like an incredibly cynical and myopic take.
I also think it's an incredibly realistic take.
It's also
expected that everything on the internet will track you, will be
constantly expanded for the purpose of commercialization instead of user
experience, etc.... Yet Gemini purposefully rejects those notions in
favor of something better. The idea that the same shouldn't apply here
is odd.
Even though Gemini (and gopher to an extent) reject those ideas, itdoesn't mean privacy or control over the content. I wrote about this lastyear:
http://boston.conman.org/2019/10/29.2 gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/10/29.2 gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2019/10/29.2
(take your pick of format)
I even quote the same solderpunk article (and another one not bysolderpunk) about how they're ... well ... "wrong" is the wrong word here,but it's close ... perhaps "misguided" is what I'm thinking of. Informationthat is publically available (and by any measure, most of Gemini is public)can, and will, travel in mysterious ways, which I discuss in my post above.
I can find stuff I posted to USENET in 1993 *today*. I can still find myfirst website from 1997.
-spc (I think I seriously just dated myself ... )