David Carroll @profcarroll@mastodon.social

I believe mastodon is a proto-platformcoop in that it must become a worker/user-owned platform that is formally operationalized with democratic governance. Otherwise it risks becoming another diaspora*

The inherent security flaw discovered/documented by @adrienneleigh necessitates democratic governance. https://twitter.com/adrienneleigh/status/850061121184604160

See http://platformcoop.net to learn about the global #platformcoop movement.

Anyone working on a mastodon bot that mines your twitter account for who you follow and lets you know when the same mastodon handle is registered and posts to the federated timeline?

Very important thread on Twitter that explains how Mastodon's distributed and federated model has some very alarming security flaws that will be extremely challenging to fix.

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https://twitter.com/adrienneleigh/status/850061121184604160

If someone can explain the difference between Local and Federated in 500 characters or less that would be great because I find it completely baffling.

Re-operationalizing my Mastodon