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0 pointsAlmondsetat3mo ago0 comments

>Tim Berners-Lee tries to make the internet a place where you can choose, what it "forgets". At least that were the news I got from the 2010s and early 2020s.

Tim Berners-Lee created the web, not the internet, which is what chat apps use. Also, unless you can provide some direct quotes about it being designed for "forgetting" stuff, I have no idea where these "news" you got came from.

>As for how: DRM-like tech in the hands of users should allow for that.

If it's in the hands of the users, i.e. open source, it can be disabled at any moment, which is exactly what my reply already addressed.

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everforward3mo ago

I think they're talking about Solid, Tim Berners-Lee's newer venture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...

warkdarrior3mo ago

>> As for how: DRM-like tech in the hands of users should allow for that.

> If it's in the hands of the users, i.e. open source, it can be disabled at any moment, which is exactly what my reply already addressed.

The point is that with the help of hardware-backed DRM on the client, the Matrix server could send data only to unmodified clients. You modified your client in a way that does not match what the Matrix server expects? No data for you.

AlmondsetatOP3mo ago

You're repeating the same thing with more words. If you cannot control your hardware-backed DRM, then Matrix requires proprietary blobs to work.

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