#Seirdy_everyone told them that shipping in any capacity without basic safety features was worse than shipping nothing. I guess that the privileged ones calling the shots with no experience of being targeted like this thought they knew better.
#Seirdy_ and then only when there was a big outcry did they finally apologize and say "blocking is hard".
#Seirdy_that plus the fact that they get a license to use everything you post as they see fit (probably LLMs and whatnot), and this is clearly just...bad. I don't think it's worth giving it any good publicity at this point.
#Seirdy_Giving positive attention to a company that clearly doesn't care enough about keeping its users safe is only going to get people hurt.
#Seirdy_Success is not something a new social media platform deserves by default; it's a privilege contingent on taking the appropriate amount of responsibility for the power it holds.
#[tantek]I think this demonstrates the problem with prioritizing a bunch of brand new technical plumbing for marginal benefit (DIDs for total identity ownership!) over human social safety (blocking as a UI feature from day 1).
#[tantek]for more on that -> #indieweb-dev before Loqi warns
#[tantek]on a different subject, I really need to get a venue markup & page design figured out, and start syndicating to HappyCow because they have many fewer listings in my area than I know there are vegan/veggie (friendly) places
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#ludovicchabanthey here, I'm using mf2py to parse my website, and I see that if I write an `alt` description for an image, it gets included in the post's `name`