baatliwala
I have an account that I use to read, but I’ve never posted on Mastodon. Decided to tweet after seeing this post and I see a privacy option called “Quiet Public - Fewer Algorithmic Fanfares”.
Seriously, wtf is this? What does that even mean? If techie people like me can’t figure out Mastodon then you can’t expect the general public to do that. I’m not blaming this feature in particular, but Mastodon is quirky in all the wrong ways.
Technically misleading but realistically the only population it’ll affect are the Chinese who I believe don’t have GMS. Non GMS users outside China probably aren’t even a blip on their radar.
Also, how would location sharing work without a server anyway? And I very much doubt that Google would open source the server side implementation coz that’s how companies roll nowadays…
Is it just me or is a sample size of 7500 low for a population of 1 billion+?