Against Haven Social

While a few things about “Haven Social” have been promised to be better than your typical proprietary social media app (like the revocable discovery that, even better, you can and should turn off entirely), it is still a silo site. It’s a proprietary and commercial web forum. I think joining up is a bad idea. I didn’t like Cohost either but this does a lot of things even worse than Cohost did when it comes to governance. I’ve said before that I think this kind of product should be illegal—while I do feel really guilty saying that about an actual real example that some real-life individual programmer is pouring their heart and dreams into, my position hasn’t really changed and today’s dream project is tomorrow’s Zuck steel boot if we don’t watch out. The anti-AI features The name Haven is a li’l misleading because it’s not really a privacy platform like Willow. It’s an Instagram clone with all that that entails except they promise to be good this time (like we’ve heard so many times…

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