We don't need mass surveillance with guardrails, we need no mass surveillance. This is good, though, unless it prevents getting rid of mass surveillance.
Basic economic theory states that only holds if the goods / services being provided are equivalent in the eyes of consumers. It seems self evident here that consumers do not consider them equivalent.
You said that the AI industry feels they're replaceable. I'm not saying that AI does equivalent work, I'm saying that AI companies don't choose the prices for art, they just play in the market.
Now we get to see the preliminary price and a fun bonus is the 2FA features. I would be surprised if they get any spam at this price because SMS-verification sites have signal phone verification for cents. Hopefully they lower the price and add crypto payment options.
Privacy is definitely a goal. I'll update privacy policy for sure.
Part of the deal is that only the people you've added explicitly as friends can see your hollers. There's no "public feed."
One of the things that really jumped out at me is that several of my friends are Latino, and I was building this back when the ICE in Minneapolis thing was really big. I don't want to create world where people can track them and say "I know this group of non-white folks will be at this location, therefore we'll park our ICE truck outside and wait." So there was a lot of thought that went into how to make it safe for them.
Among other things, the data in the system only sticks around for a few days after the event. Also, while there is RSVP functionality, it's not required -- you can just show up. There are a few other things I've added that I can't remember off the top of my head that focus on the privacy angle.
E2EE felt like overkill at the time, but I can certainly work on adding it. Thank you.
Thanks for calling out the broken links (I don't use Twitter, and the email just needs to be wired up), and for the call out on privacy. Will get that updated soon.
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