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Most people have generally agreed for the past few years that some form of social networking should be recommended on the site. I noted this here back in May 2022, but nobody has submitted a PR in the time since: Reconsider Social Network and Social News Aggregator recommendations · privacyguides · …

Well, I voted. It should be added. People do ask what else can I use and they know jack about Mastodon. Atleast this way they can learn about it themselves when I point them to PG.

While there might not be as strong privacy protections for posting as centralised platforms, the ability to be pseudonymous can’t be discounted. Most major platforms do require personally identifiable information to sign up (mobile number and or ID). That alone sets it apart and should at least be a…

Jonah one of the criteria you put in place is that you can have private accounts, but AFAIK Mastodon doesn’t support this.

[image] anon80779245: AFAIK Mastodon doesn’t support this. It does and I included instructions on how to do so already, unless you understand private accounts to mean something else?

I split up the dicussion on adding the category it self to here for sanity: Social Networking Software Category - #7 by jonah

[image] jonah: It does and I included instructions on how to do so already, unless you understand private accounts to mean something else? sorry should have read the page in full, instead I just had looked for private profile option in my instance. I have a few more thoughts. Your proposal …

I also think we shouldn’t idolize Mastodon and mention where it fails. One instance is that network-wide censorship does exists because instances that do not follow a moderation baseline acceptable to the majority will be banned. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495086 Account migration shoul…

The official app is a front-end for the Mastodon instance itself. Community-derived alternatives do exist, but security update frequency may vary. You technically don’t even need to install the official app since Mastodon can also become a PWA (which are far better IMO)

Overall I see no issues with recommending Mastodon, but minor comments: Visibility controls protect against the Public Exposure threat, which is not mentioned at the top. Although, these can of course be bypassed if your adversary creates a fake profile meaning it doesn’t really protect against Pub…

I think the threats we mention at the top should be relative to the typical tools in that category, and from a certain perspective even regular social media can protect you from mere public exposure, strictly speaking, so this isn’t an added benefit here.

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