Maybe because most mammals don’t menstruate. Only humans and a few others do, like bats and some apes.

This gives me uncanny valley feelings. The eyes seem too high in the face somehow.

There is some kind of account-wall on Twitter. I have been hit with a popup asking me to sign up or log in plenty of times, in order to be allowed to read the tweets I was trying to read.

So twitter is not allowing everyone to read the tweets without an account.

Hey, I completely agree with you, in that the most interesting discussions are among groups where I don’t agree with everyone. This is where I learn and grow as a person.

But in saying that, aren’t you also saying that some people, like you and me, would not use such a database to filter out the users we do not agree with?

And would it not be a logical conclusion to make, that people who likes to build and stay in their echo chambers, would not be more inclined to listen to different opinions just because they don’t have a more efficient tool to sort out people they disagree with?

What I am saying is, all information that is technically available will be collected and analysed. Better make a public and open platform showing everything, such that everyone can see exactly what can be collected and surmised from the already public information, than to keep users blind from what information they actually leak publically.

Hey, I completely agree with you, in that the most interesting discussions are among groups where I don’t agree with everyone. This is where I learn and grow as a person.

But in saying that, aren’t you also saying that some people, like you and me, would not use such a database to filter out the users we do not agree with?

And would it not be a logical conclusion to make, that people who likes to build and stay in their echo chambers, would not be more inclined to listen to different opinions just because they don’t have a more efficient tool to sort out people they disagree with?

What I am saying is, all information that is technically available will be collected and analysed. Better make a public and open platform showing everything, such that everyone can see exactly what can be collected and surmised from the already public information, than to keep users blind from what information they actually leak publically.

Because it is a platform governed by a 3rd party entity in a foreign country. That platform can ban and censor citizen, based on foreign cultural values and arbitrary rules, limiting citizen access to their own goverments information.

The platform governments choose to use for public information and debate should always provide open and public access to that information.

A government should not require its citizen to create a Twitter account, and thereby requiring them to provide their personal information to a foreign country, just to be part of the public debate and to get public information. That is just plainly wrong.

I was thinking yay that sounds like an awesome data visualization platform, that would be great. Until I got to the “just kidding” part.

You are right, all this information is readily available. And we would be really naive if we think that no one is collecting this yet.

You, or someone else, should build this, such that it is clearly visible for everyone what data is available. And not just visible to the select few who builds their own closed data mining systems.

Every single thing you do here is visible to absolutely everyone. By the very nature of how the fediverse works, where everyone can set up a server and participate, there is no way around it.

What you can do to mitigate, if you really feel it is a problem, is to have multiple accounts for different communities. This will limit how much of a profile other users can build on you.

You could also rotate accounts over time, and create new ones every month, for example.