Twitter stores original account names, dox vulnerability via Twitter Spaces

The argument is only irrelevant if you consider the matter solved. But it's not.

You still think "Twitter should do something", like if 30 years of big IT corporation behavior history hasn't proven it's wishful thinking.

What we need is keeping educating people to not use those platforms for anything that requires privacy, to not give all their data to GAFAM and make safe systems more user friendly and ubiquitous. So that it doesn't stay in the HN bubble.

This is not wishful thinking, as people around me are asking me more and more about privacy. Last month, my little bro told me to switch to encrypted channels to talk to him, for something I though was overkill. He is not in IT. It's a slow process, but so is teaching everyone to read.

In that regards, having such argument is a good thing, since that, even in HN, it's a healthy way to discussing between people tech saavy what we could prioritize as a community.

I assume, that, since we are discussing it, some of us are interested in the problem and our role in it.

For thousands of years, we've relied on various forms of public and private postal service. The public ones were funded and run by whatever government, and the private ones provided a service for their customers in exchange for payment. Phone companies have mostly been technically private but heavily regulated, and funded directly by their customers.

That all worked well enough. In contrast, what we have here with Twitter is a system where the customers are the advertisers. The communications on the platform are a byproduct. In this scenario how could we expect Twitter to act any differently?

We need something way different and we tech folk can be part of the solution. Distributed open platforms with public funding and which welcome regulation -- this seems like a direction with some hope.

But I will not be betting on a few do-gooders at Twitter having a little bit of thought for the future acting as our savior.