Without the content warning this time:
we should incorporate poison-pill auto-delete terms into the default Mastodon setup (terms and conditions, any CoC that get rolled into default Mastodon) to prevent instances from being purchased for their data
@Danhon this has a large number of potential problems. it's actually better to trust your admin.
@rysiek It's always better to do that, but how do we encourage that *as well*?
@Danhon good question. I guess by putting pressure on the relevant developers and creating a culture where it's just Not Cool to a). implement features that are not possible to implement in other #Fediverse software; b). not implement features implemented elsewhere (that are implementable)
@rysiek right, so what are the mechanisms that we can use to create that culture? Defaults are one mechanism.
@Danhon yeah, I done goofed and thought I was answering to a different issue. -_-; But about the poison pill, 1. assume everything you post on your instance is public unless encrypted; 2. trust your admin; 3. use smaller instances.
I don't think many Mastodon / GNU Social admins would be willing to sell an instance off. And I don't think anybody would want to buy off an instance that has 50 users.
@Danhon point being, who would control such a poison pill? the admins? then they will deactivate it if they're selling. the users? then a disgruntled user can nuke the whole instance and deny communication to other users on the instance. And even if the users control it, the admins will always have a way of deactivating it.
The "poison pill" idea is basically kind of sort of DRM. And DRM is defective by design. It simply will not work.
@Danhon interesting, worth considering. Each admin is just one person. What is someone's price when they have bills to pay?
@Danhon did you hear what happened to buttcoin?
@sl2c this sounds like the kind of joke my preschooler would tell me
@Danhon I'm guessing your preschooler wouldn't say "it got bought by a bitcoin miner company in order to remove a negative review" though 😜
@sl2c you'd be surprised, I hear that kids these days are really good with computers :)
@Danhon Let's tag this with #MastoDev shall we :)