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0 pointsp49k4y ago0 comments

This just goes back to what the original person said about "Building walls in physical world is also very stupid hehe"

It's entirely reasonable to create a system designed to allow people to share things once, and indicate to others that they don't want it spread any further. It's reasonable to design software which attempts to honor such requests by introducing friction, making it 95% effective despite knowing that 5% of people will be able/willing to work around it.

Most people are "path of least resistance" and are too lazy to work around something like this, which is exactly the point. Pretty much every person using such a system is aware that the recipient could just take a picture of the phone with a camera.

Perfect is the enemy of the good.

0 pointsp49k4y ago0 comments

This just goes back to what the original person said about "Building walls in physical world is also very stupid hehe"

Perfect is the enemy of the good.

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endisneigh4y ago· 3 in thread

I don’t think it’s reasonable at all. The wall example isn’t the analogous situation.

Is it reasonable that someone give you a gift and you cannot sell it or give it to anyone else?

p49kOP4y ago

Your analogy is not relevant at all to the situation.

It's completely reasonable for someone to give you a letter or photo of a personal nature and ask you not to share it (or simply expect you to understand that it's not to be shared). In the physical realm, the honor system comes into effect. In the digital realm, there's nothing wrong with adding an imperfect layer of accountability/protection to greatly reduce the chance that it becomes shared.

endisneigh4y ago

It’s perfectly relevant. It’s literally the analogous situation. There’s nothing special about the so-called digital realm.

The same expectations and honor system you described can be upheld in the “digital realm”. The only difference is that people have the arrogance to try to force things upon “digital” users because they can.

And also, I never said the gift was physical in nature.

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johnisgood4y ago

> It's completely reasonable for someone to give you a letter or photo of a personal nature and ask you not to share it (or simply expect you to understand that it's not to be shared).

Yeah, and because I am a good friend, I will not share those photos with anyone, especially if they ask me not to. :)

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