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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • It’s not different for the Internet. We’ve always had people that have been opposed to ideologies separate from their own. Book bans aren’t anything new and neither are restrictions to free speech. Nazi book burnings and the US Red Scare are extreme examples of this. It’s all a symptom of nationalism and ethnocentrism, just a different place/time/media. What really sucks is that the nationalists have a lot of power now all over the world, and we’re slowly seeing the results of that.

    This isn’t about saving the kids. This is about controlling the populous.





  • Fair points. I’d say it depends on what we’re focusing on.

    Maybe a good compromise would be to have the account that sent the message generate the preview. At least that way you’d maintain E2EE and save the webserver some unnecessary demand.

    I can also see how this could be less reliable (because we’re now relying on a client with all sorts of variables) and less safe (malicious sender could mask malicious links with benign previews) than the server method but it all depends on which you prefer more.

    After thinking about it in this situation, previews are just a nightmare to deal with privately and I’d probably just want to turn them off.