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@janl@chaos.social Mastodon is larger than Eugen though, and there's actually a sizeable part of the community that also doesn't agree with other (privacy-related) choices Eugen makes, like the Mastodon 4.x hugely exposed client API.
It's good to have a conversation about this with the community, but that goes much better when there isn't a published tool that is (perceived as) an active threat.
Opt-out is not enough, this needs an active opt-in, like a recognizable hashtag in bio.
@bstacey @janl@chaos.social it's also something that has gotten worse over time, where many newer decisions are very clearly prioritizing marketing over privacy
@bstacey @f0x @janl@chaos.social Exactly this. A lot of safety features and conventions on Mastodon are the result of people having to endlessly push Eugen to do the right thing, *not* the result of some decree from above.
And more fundamentally, Eugen does not dictate what "consent" looks like on fedi. Eugen is just a software developer.
@f0x @janl I also agree with this. For a lot of people, "Eugen likes this idea" is itself an argument for regarding it skeptically.