@chosafine In this case, several different people were crowing about how good it's privacy controls are.
And that's when I decided to back out.
@ajroach42 @chosafine@instance.business
Were these people claiming that Facebook has good privacy controls? Or were they saying that the Fediverse has almost no privacy controls?
Mastodon is not designed to keep people's posts or their social graphs private. I want more people to use Mastodon, but I also want new Mastodon users to understand that their social graphs are public and that "status privacy" isn't totally reliable on a distributed network.
@ajroach42 @chosafine@instance.business
I misunderstood what your post was referring to. I thought that you were referring to a widely-boosted post saying that it would be bad for privacy if people switched from Facebook to Mastodon and started using Mastodon the way they use Facebook.
@ejworthing @chosafine Hey buddy, did I ask you about this, or invite you in to this conversation?
No. No I did not.
This isn't currently about Mastodon. We can talk about Mastodon's privacy situation another time.
This is about facebook.
You can 'butwhatabout' all day, but that's not what we're talking about.