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Can't please every human alive, so I might as well not try to do any better. This is a very Zuckerbergian take.

Do you want to prevent leaks, or achieve some other goal? If you want to prevent leaks, this isn't an effective approach. If you want to achieve a different goal, that's fine, too, but orthogonal to the stated goal. For leaks, it's probably better to just restrict communications to the necessary distribution and understand that anything widely distributed is more or less public.

You can prevent all the leaks by having nothing bad to leak. That is what is being suggested.

I don't think leaking is limited to "bad" things.

Leaking of good things is just good "PR" - people even pay good money for that to "accidentally" happen. Wonder why nobody thinks about actually doing the good thing and not bother with the rest.

No, Apple famously doesn’t want stuff leaked even if it would be good.

Apple isn't good, it's just materialistic. Let's not conflate the two, especially since both have no issues working with authoritarians of all strips.

I get why people have this idea, but it doesn't work. A culture of "don't have anything bad to leak" quickly and inevitably leads to "keep your mouth shut so there's nothing bad to leak".

You're saying it is impossible for good people to exist. I can't accept that?

It's impossible for someone to be so good that nothing they say would ever look bad when leaked out of context. Sometimes you have to make hard tradeoffs, or hypothetically evaluate something to understand whether it's bad or not.

He'd please a lot more people if the feed hadn't been filled with crap - out of order, at that - that nobody ever subscribed to in the first place, causing them to miss actual posts from friends (whatever you think of 'social media', his website is fucking broken) for YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS

FB works perfectly well for me.

80% of posts in my FB feed are groups or people to which I've subscribed or followed.

10% are interesting things it suggests outside that core, which I then follow.

10% are suggestions that I don't find interesting and which I mark as such.

> This is a very Zuckerbergian take.

No, it's just a common fallacy. If you don't like the guy, isn't "zuckerbergian" an example of helping him live rent free in people's heads?

I'm actually not kidding when I say that Zuckerberg likes that particular fallacy a lot and I've seen him use it. You're right that it's not at all exclusive to him.

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