Self sovereign ownership is great up until the point where you lose your password (or your friends who you were going to the concert with lose theirs)
SECURITY
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Mastodon Open Source: Server Liability and Community Support
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Mastodon is open source software you can run on your own hardware, so no they don't do anything to take on liability for you The good news is that many of the people who DO run servers have 20+ years of internet community experience and share advice with each other generously
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DMCA Takedown Requests Community Mastodon Server Legal Guide
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Required reading if you're running a community Mastodon server that might be hit by DMCA takedown requests https://
x.com/rahaeli/status
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Cybersecurity Education: Recognizing and Reporting Phishing Threats
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Good #CyberSecurity is founded on #Education #Culture & #tech !
Great #resource here @NETSCOUT Recognize & Report #phishing https://
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Search engines crawling Mastodon instances raises long-term concerns
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It's not clear to me if that cultural preference is going to hold for the long run though, especially given search engines like Google already crawl Mastodon instances (though presumably they obey robots.txt)
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Decentralized Systems: Avoiding Centralization Risks in AI
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The challenge here is that centralized systems will ALWAYS have a usability advantage. The cost of that is that they can be bought, and ruined We gotta put a bit of extra work in if we want to avoid that happening to us again in the future
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Mastodon UX Design: Decentralization Challenges and User Experience
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I think the UX of Mastodon is extraordinarily good considering the difficulty of what it is trying to achieve It's always been 100x easier to design usable products if they are centralized. But centralized platforms can be bought and ruined even after you trust them for 16 years
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Decentralized Networks Worth Their Infrastructure Costs
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Generally though there are definite costs involved in having a network that someone like Elon can't ruin I've decided that I can tolerate them
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Mastodon’s Decentralization Protects Users From Billionaire Control
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After the past couple of weeks it turns out the one feature I care most about is that a billionaire can't buy my online home and ruin it – and that's the single feature Mastodon has that nothing else (at least of the same scale) has been able to offer
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Smart Video Analytics Transforms Cities with Privacy-Conscious Innovation
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From #fans in a stadium to a #city walk #video #cameras are omnipresent but are they #smart & how do they make you feel? New #innovation combines #performance #experience & #privacy @AvidBeam https://
insight.tech/retail/intelli
gent-video-analytics-activate-smart-cameras?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=2022-tdc-eaves
… #SmartCities #tech #IntelPartner #ITInfluencer #CX #IoT #5G