Kristian on Nostr: @[url=https://cosocial.ca/users/evan]Evan Prodromou[/url] Would have voted "qualified ...

@[url=https://cosocial.ca/users/evan]Evan Prodromou[/url] Would have voted "qualified no" if I actually could, at this point. Experiences with "researchers" on other platforms leave me very very cautious and concerned here. Much more than these, however: _My_ Fediverse data itself is irrelevant. What matters seems data that somehow relates me to others, and I can't at all be sure most (or even all) of my contacts are willing for me to share any information on our interactions, communications, messages. Plus, it feels at least not trivial to handle data from people that agreed _and_, from that set, weeding out data from people that have _not_ agreed without actually having at least this interaction information at hand, back then.
(On the other end, most of my communication out here is public. I have learnt not to very much trust the Fediverse and specificially ActivityPub from a technical perspective with real "private" data so guess any researcher could probably go there and utilize some sort of web or AP crawler to get whichever public information is there without a second thought.)