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Twitter’s announcement of so-called “end-to-end encrypted” direct messages is complete garbage and an exercise in gobbledygook. Here’s the major caveats:

1. It’s not available to all Twitter users — you must be subscribed to Twitter Blue
2. It must be deliberately opt-in for use
3. You can only send encrypted messages to people who follow you
4. Does not work with groups
5. Only works with text or links — don’t even think of encrypting photos!
6. Where are these messages being stored?

With all those caveats, why use Twitter’s end-to-end encryption at all?

Even Elon Musk doesn’t trust this feature right now. He’s said, “try it, but don’t trust it yet.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/05/11/musks-long-promised-encrypted-messages-finally-launch-on-twitterwith-major-caveats/?sh=65495f4070a5

@socialmedianews@venera.social

—@atomicpoet

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It amazes me when people toss around scary percentages around youth identifying themselves as queer as proof of anything other than increased awareness leading to younger people actually finding out there are words they can use to describe themselves.

It’s like left-handedness. Look at that spike! OMG! It’s an epidemic! People are *making* other people left-handed! We need to stop it somehow!

Or, y’know, we stopped demonizing it and people got to be themselves. Could be that.

—@NathanBurgoine

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Want to make a bet about when CNN hosts a White Power Hour with Nick Fuentes and Baked Alaska? They can call it a town hall and have Jake Tapper ask questions.

That fits, right? After all CNN put Kaitlan Collins on a stage with a know sex abuser. Anything to appeal to the worst of humanity in the name of “ratings”. #RSSFeed
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CNN Boss Faces Internal Furor Over Trump Town Hall – Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2023/05/cnn-boss-faces-internal-furor-over-trump-town-hall/

—@jan

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Gotosocial officially stating they’re prioritizing safety features and accessibility over any concept of scalable deployment or parallelization is real nice.

I’m a huge fan of any project that aims to scale down and not up and if there’s anything that would not suffer from the concept of a theoretical max size, it’d be fedi software.

—@trysdyn

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It has been proven repeatedly that platforms prioritizing growth over safety are toxic to everyone else who doesn’t present as white, straight, and a man.

No, I’m not going to debate it anymore. No, I don’t care if people think I’m wrong to center safety in my dev efforts because I can live with it going sideways if that happens.

But in my experience as a dev and a citizen of the web for more than two decades, the missing link to rehumanizing social media spaces is safety for the most marginalized people that have historically been ignored.

And I’m going to create around that ethos.

—@Are0h

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@Homebrewandhacking @bitwarden @1password

You’re right – you have no control over the password policies for third-party services. So with that in mind, let me introduce you to a concept I debuted last summer called #PasswordNihilism .

Password nihilism is understanding that sites have shit complexity requirements and shit password storage, and then not giving a shit because you recognize that none of it matters. Max 8 characters? Doesn’t matter, don’t care. Plaintext storage? Doesn’t matter, don’t care.

Why doesn’t it matter, and why should you not care? Because out of all the attributes a password can have (length, complexity, uniqueness, randomness, etc.), the only one that actually matters is uniqueness. And by “matters”, I mean “actually defends against threats in the overall threat model for password security.”

So, as long as you’re using a password manager to generate and store unique passwords for each site, you too can be a password nihilist!

If you’d like to learn more about password nihilism, check out:

This interview with @thorsheim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJkGom-bngs

And this interview with @todb:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/62kyiCbX8vsx74n94dAT1C

—@epixoip

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i wish people would start saying “people who need screenreaders” instead of “visually impaired people” or similar, because:

1. not everyone with low vision needs a screenreader. this leads to people thinking their job making things accessible is done by making things screenreader-friendly, while most of it is still violently inaccessible to hard of sight people like me who rarely use screenreaders and rely on things like large text.

2. not everyone who uses a screenreader does so because of low vision. i have low vision and the main reason i use a screenreader sometimes are visual processing issues. the idea that only people who can’t see (and thus also can’t read) use screenreaders leads to situations like on twitter when we weren’t able to actually read the alt text, leaving lots of things inaccessible for lots of people. i missed out on a lot of stuff before i was able to view alt text.

be specific. it matters.

#LowVision #Disabled #Disability #VisualProcessingDisorder

—@soongtypedelta