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diff --git a/wiki/gossamer/mistakes.md b/wiki/gossamer/mistakes.md index bb006db..110fe29 100644 --- a/wiki/gossamer/mistakes.md +++ b/wiki/gossamer/mistakes.md @@ -1,5 +1,21 @@ # Design Mistakes +## Is Gossamer Up? + +[@megtastique](https://twitter.com/megtastique) points out that two factors +doom the whole design: + +1. There's no way to remove content from Gossamer once it's published, and + +2. Gossamer can anonymously share images. + +Combined, these make Gossamer the _perfect_ vehicle for revenge porn and +other gendered, sexually-loaded network abuse. + +This alone is enough to doom the design, as written: even restricting the +size of messages to the single kilobyte range still makes it trivial to +irrevocably disseminate _links_ to similar content. + ## Protected Feeds? Who Needs Those? Gossamer's design does not carry forward an important Twitter feature: the |