Amanda Unvarnished

Let this be a lesson to anyone who dares try to violently overthrow the elected government of the United States of America:

You will have to wait nearly two and a half years before CNN will produce a giant primetime commercial for you!

—@lolgop

To no one’s surprise, the “encrypted” direct messages at Twitter are hopelessly insecure, and it doesn’t seem there’s even a plan to develop real end-to-end encryption.

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/encrypted-direct-messages

—@maxkennerly

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

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