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Yeah, let's send my social media data to a bunch of servers automatically through a distributed protocol with no practical means to enforce compliance with privacy settings. But that's okay, nobody ever posts anything on social media that they end up regretting, right?

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I'm reasonably secure in my feeling that centralisation isn't the problem.

As much as people far too freely giving up information about themselves online. Decentralisation can work as an anti-censorship measure but I wouldn't expect something I send out over Bittorrent (for example) to remain my personal private info.

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