My stance towards Meta is that the Fediverse needs two types of servers:
Lobby servers that explicitly federate with Meta for the purposes of moving people from Meta to the rest of the Fediverse
Exit servers that explicitly defederate with Meta for the purposes of keeping portions of the Fediverse out of reach from Meta
Both approaches not only can co-exist with each other, they might just be complementary.
People who use Meta need a way to migrate towards a space that is friendly, easy-to-use, and allows them to port their social graph.
But People also need a space that’s free from Meta, and allows them to exist beyond the eye of Zuckerberg.
Guess what? People who use Meta now might want to be invisible to Meta later. And people who dislike Meta might need a bridge to contact friends and family through some mechanism that still allows them to communicate beyond Meta’s control.
***** The obvious solution to the Google passkeys problem *****
Use of passkeys should require -- at least when biometric phone locks are not in use -- an authentication system separate from that used to unlock the phone. That way, a spied unlock password and stolen phone would not give the thief the ability to use the passcodes stored on the phone with such ease. -L
Movie idea: Freddie Krueger gets a job as a systems administrator at a Fortune 500 company that has opened an office on Elm Street. Shortly thereafter end users start disappearing after making inane technical support requests about printers, power cords not plugged in correctly, or icons in the wrong place on their home page.
Nightmare on Elm Street Part MMXXIII
Or:
End user was supposed to be a description, not a goal!