Off My Chest
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I feel one of the good things with the fediverse is you have a lot of control. I generally champion for as much user control as possible and I saw a lot of it in kbin and when it fell piefed sorta took up the gauntlet. I peruse all and block communities I have no interest in because I want to see new communities I might have interest in which does not work if you subscribe. Piefed tried to solve it with topics but I find all and blocking the way to go. When it comes to users I ususally due dilegence before blocking. Before looking through history to see if its common behavior or if they are just having a bad day. Also if they seem to be real and varied. Like people who only post in one particular way im more likely to as I either think they are bots or just obsessed with one type of thing. Piefed has this great thing now where you can make personal notes on users so its easier to not jump the gun. There are definately some very interesting folk and even things like this are nice as its good to be challenged. Not as much on something with get off my chest which is a community for bitching about something that bugs you but I like places were I can learn something. Ill admit though I have a chip on my shoulder with security in tech from my own IT experiences.
Fair, I totally neglected to recognize that's what you were here for and focused entirely on trying to get the concept across. I don't usually pay much attention to which community I'm reading, I just stick to local for tech stuff and all for everything else. I barely customize the experience at all.
I'm not a security-specific person but I am a programmer, so I will just pass on one tiny nugget of wisdom on the original topic: Yes, what bothers you about the messaging in the UI is possible without compromising security, it's just more complicated and requires a bit more scrutiny and due diligence on the part of the engineering team. However, "possible" and "reasonable" are two very different things in the eyes of a developer. We are typically constrained by tight deadlines, moving targets, and competing priorities, and that often leads to doing the simplest thing that solves the problem now, rather than the elegant and full-featured thing that will make everyone happy. My favorite reference on this topic is SMOP, (Small Matter of Programming) which is basically the idea that I just spelled out. Yes, what you want is possible, but it is more difficult than most people realize to do right.
Oh I get that but it frustrates me both in personal life and work life. One thing that I have found is quality teams have been tossed out and that type of thing is tossed onto, if your lucky, they customer reps and they generally are low tech techies at best and are put under pressure and such as not to take it into account. Also I feel many places no longer eat their own dogfood. This is a big reason we have the enshitification we have. Its not the only thing but its definately a part of it.