Unless you're running it on your own domain, you don't own your ... • Aaron Parecki

Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
I am disappointed so many of the people who tweet about #SurveillanceCapitalism and #IndieWeb have not setup a Mastodon account somewhere. It’s federated. It works well. There is Twitter cross-posting to ease the transition. I subscribe to https://librem.one/ .

Unless you're running it on your own domain, you don't own your mastodon identity, the server admin does. Sure it's better than the Twitter monolith, but getting a mastodon account "somewhere" doesn't solve the underlying #indieweb problem.

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

Tue, Jan 28, 2020 6:46am -08:00 #indieweb

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Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  Nope, email *domain* not email server. My email address is @parecki.com but it's gmail behind it. That means I can swap out gmail for running my own server later and nobody who emails me will ever notice. That's the difference.
  
  Tue, Jan 28, 2020 3:27pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Jeremiah Lee twitter.com/JeremiahLee
  
  To parrot back: Do you run your own email server? Unless you're running your own, you don't own your email identity, the server admin does. I think distributed instances with their own rules are many steps forward from our current centralized position. Better is good.
  
  Tue, Jan 28, 2020 3:25pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  Sure, but I just don't think a blanket "join a mastodon somewhere" statement is really beneficial overall.
  
  Tue, Jan 28, 2020 3:21pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Jeremiah Lee twitter.com/JeremiahLee
  
  https://t.co/i5y4dV6nIE
  
  Tue, Jan 28, 2020 3:19pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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