>helping build a perfect decentralized surveillance record
a record of what? Posts I wish to share with the public anyway?
a record of what? Posts I wish to share with the public anyway?
Well now someone's PDS is a truly complete record of their social activity neatly organized for anyone that's interested. It's not a security issue, after all the data was still public before, but the barrier to entry is now zero. It's so low that you can just go to stalker.io, put in their handle, and it will analyze their profile and will print out a scary accurate timeline of their activity and location leveraging AI's geoguesser skill.
They shouldn't, but they still could: accidentally paste in the wrong browser tab; have been stupid when they were 12 years old; have gotten drunk; or a number of other things.
Of course that's the same with the web we have today, the only difference is that you get control over which data goes with which identity rather than having that decision made for you by the platform boundaries.
Consider that a muddy, "oh a bunch of different servers downloaded this guys history, but it's different on one from the other" could be ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE SAFER from a surveillance perspective.