The level of "privacy" provided by these Mastodon things is so ridiculous it's absurd. And yet apparently it works and people like it and use it?

I mean, that seems to be case from what I can infer from horribly-concerned terrible-writer person here: it's a thing they trust to work, everybody trusts to work, and works most of the time. And they get very angry when it doesn't work -- even though it should be obvious to anyone there is basically nothing preventing it from stopping working completely anytime. It's all make-believe magic-wand technology.

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Meanwhile on Nostr, or "private Nostr" as nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s once called it, we have a little bit of make-believe technology, but with better incentives, less blast radius and much more reliable and fine-grained implementations that give us actually much better chances of things working -- and yet nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn thinks it's not enough and wants to run pure encryption functions on all the notes and make everybody's lives miserable for no gain because in the end screenshots still exist and are effectful, negating his purism.

Making everybod's lives miserable is gain enough

I don't think people chose fediverse because of privacy. It's never going to scale in any other way than a few multi-milion servers administrated by powertripping identity owners and a handful of brave single server hosters who have to start over building their graph every other year.

Frankly the protocol is straight up bullcrap, and i say that as small server admin, it's the people on it that makes it interesting.