Re: [Social-discuss] Control own privacy, posted by _others_

[Rob Myers]

On 06/04/10 16:10, Odin Omdal Hørthe wrote:au
> 
> I am  odin.example.com (Odin Hørthe). My server on  odin.example.com
> is authorative of the tag  odin.example.com. A friend has added me as
> a friend on THEIR GNU social, and tags me in a picture (writing Odin,
> which then tags the picture as -> odin.example.com). Other servers
> wanting to find pictures and other information about me, use
> odin.example.com as source. If uglyspammer.example.net links a picture
> to odin.example.com noone will care for that tag, because if
> odin.example.com doesn't point to uglyspammer, it isn't a real tag
> (picture) of me.
> 
> When adding a friend, say, Ian, I can also trust ian.example.com to
> always approve tags he's tagging me in. So there is no waiting
> involved in 1) Ian uploading and tagging a picture of me, 2) others
> finding it via my server.
> 
> But with uglyspammer (which isn't a friend), I won't republish his
> links without approving them. Which I won't.

Yes I like this.

- rob.