cdata @cdata@mastodon.social

You know instance admins can read your direct messages in the fediverse? Twitter and Facebook also can - and sometimes do - read your private messages, and they have infrastructure to comply with law enforcement requests. I'd love to see some end-to-end encryption built into Mastodon clients.

im sure we can do better than this but just to get the ball rolling https://mastodon.xyz/media/Sky8KRPP3uozDp7J3jA

If Mastodon is the Federation, does that make Twitter the Empire? :thinking:

I'm reading @sarahjeong's story about Mastodon and completely relating to her description of twitter addiction.

"Is the Merriam-Webster dictionary subtweeting the president today? I wish I knew, so I could pretend to not care. I am scum and don't deserve mastodon.social. But here I am."

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mastodon-is-like-twitter-without-nazis-so-why-are-we-not-using-it

hypothesis: if too many early users sign up on mastodon.social instead of other instances, federation will end up becoming a second-class feature. (imagine what email today would look like if gmail had existed in the 90s.)

other instances need to be able to compete with mastodon.social for growth, or https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177 should be implemented.

📣 Using CSS’ matrix3d() to build a frame-perfect custom scrollbar 🔥

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/03/custom-scrollbar https://mastodon.social/media/IkXvabTkD6Qu8dEGiao