@voltronic - It won't last long. The hilariously stupid user agreement's first version scared people off and became part of its permanent record. Doubt it'll last long.
@esaeger
I hope not. I keep seeing piles of people saying they are making accounts on all of these, including CoSo. It's unfortunate that many only find out later what they signed up for, and that their personal data is no longer private.
@voltronic - I have one friend who really worries about privacy, where most everyone else I know is fine with using Target's wifi, entering their geofence and then wondering how Target knew to spam their Facebook with a coupon for the Iams cat food they picked up and looked at in the store.
I think CoSo will be the VHS to Tribel's Beta within a matter of weeks.
@esaeger
Several people who signed up for Mastodon recently have said they started receiving all kinds of spam emails soon afterward.
@voltronic - Huh. Didn't CoSo fork off from Mastodon, like, isn't it a part of Mastodon in the Fediverse? You'll have to forgive the dumb question, I'm a software guy but am not versed in all the ins and outs of Mastodon or where it and CoSo fit and whatnot within the Fediverse. Kind of out of my usual scope but I think all this stuff is the wave of the future and etc.
@esaeger
So we've been de-Federated since sometime in 2018, I believe.
@voltronic - Right, some Googling got me to the basics. Only part of the hostile nations thing I'd casually question is the possibility of, say, a Chinese whistleblower being in possession of hard evidence of the covid lab leak, but I suppose people would simply post any such stories here. Meanwhile I'm kind of curious as to how they identify hostile VPNs, but that stuff's also not in my wheelhouse; I trust Jester's well-schooled in it.
Looks really good so far despite the load speedbumps.
@esaeger
CoSo did fork off Mastodon, after Eugen Rochko, Mastodon's founder, convinced all of the other major instance admins to block us over the "hostile nations" policy. I don't have the blog post handy explaining in detail, but someone else will see this and respond with it.