CIRCLE WITH A DOT

"Every single time you mandate #ageverification, you are mandating the creation of a centralized database of extraordinarily sensitive personal information. Government IDs. #Biometric facial data. The kind of data that, once breached, cannot be “changed” like a password. You get one face. You get one #government ID number. When those leak—and they will leak—the damage is permanent."

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

We've been saying this for years now, and we're going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached. Every single time. And every single time it happens, the politicians who mandated these systems and the companies that…

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@Tamtam

I don't think Mastodon failed them. We came in 2016 trying to emulate the twitter experience we were addicted to at the time, and that was not available without the centralized algorithm.

I can say that, "among the crowd" (which is to say the relatively small group of digital activists) from the 00's in Brazil, Mastodon then became a symbol of failure (in becoming a Twitter substitute).

But as we all know now, the Fediverse is something different, for good.

@everton137

In my view, there are some aspects to mention:

1) By the time of Dilma's coup in 2016, we had a significant migration from Twitter, specially among digital culture activists. I've managed a Mastodon instance (ecodigital.social), and many colleagues and friends were invited to participate, but we were not ready to understand what was at stake at the time. I believe many who had that experience think Mastodon has already failed, and don't deserve another chance, then Bluesky.

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