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Chris Trottier

📰 CONFIRMED 📰

@mammoth iOS client for Mastodon has received VC funding.

It's the first VC-backed Mastodon client that I know about.

This changes the dynamics of the Fediverse big time!

mammoth.writeas.com/we-are-hir

@fediversenews

@atomicpoet @fediversenews

This is bad. Vulture Capitalists never make anything better.

@atomicpoet interesting that this was mentioned in a post yesterday when today’s post says they’re still getting disclosure approval mammoth.writeas.com/our-busine

@aulia @atomicpoet Maybe those under embargo include additional investors, and "support" is ambiguous whether it's about funding or not.

@atomicpoet

So, they "announced" the investors on the 23rd, but on the 24th, they are still "getting the OK from everyone to announce" 🤔

They mention the Brave "search monetization" model as well here. Either way, user data is going to be scraped for ads from Mastodon which continues to be indexed despite instance/user mitigations.

mammoth.writeas.com/our-busine

@alaric @atomicpoet

There are two problems.

The web is meant to be read; it follows that if you put something on the web, it will be read.

The other thing is, we over-share.

Given the first thing, if something sensitive 'gets out' *it is because we put it there*.

A basic rule of thumb used to be, "don't put on the web that which you don't want shared'.

This should still be the rule; I don't understand what made people think we should be acting any other way. But it is still the best strategy, and it was always about protecting privacy.

I think that in a medium that is publicly read-write, the only people we have to blame when something sensitive becomes public, is ourselves.