Roni Laukkarinen on Nostr: What I love about Mastodon is that how open it is. I am a very open person, too. As ...

What I love about Mastodon is that how open it is. I am a very open person, too. As long as I remember I have loved transparecy in things I do. Back in the early 2000s I wrote a diary online (still do!) and some older Internet user sent me an email: "I wonder why you are openly telling about these things, isn't it dangerous?". I didn't tell my secrets. It was an ordinary day of a school boy nerd. Yes, sometimes I do worry about my data online. The things I expose, in a sense. However, I think I have the IQ for not telling something that I wouldn't write on a billboard. Openness has more pros than cons. With great power comes great responsibility.

I believe openness and open source brings safety and increases trust. To be clear, transparency and openness does NOT reduce privacy or data protection. On the contrary.

Mastodon's code is out in the open, its users are scattered on their own servers and the mentality generally is open and sincere. It makes me feel most at home.

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