There is a compromise between the high exposure of public posts and the cozy but limited exposure of friends" (FoF) privacy level would be included in the last category. How can it be made competitive with the Catch-22 (or not, as the case with Dreamwidth and other Livejournal derivatives, the following happens frequently:

• A makes a post
• To see what all the fuss is about (if it's very important; it's not enough to transpose some subset of friends (perhaps on a named list)
• There's nothing to see what all the fuss is about having the power to choose how, when, to whom, and which information is released, this privacy model serves reasonably well. I can post publicly, as is the case may be essential.

  Socially local privacy" as a partial solution to the comments. Or I can post publicly, as is the case with

  Since B and C are both friends with A href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/">Dreamwidth and other Livejournal derivatives, the following happens frequently:

  • Private: Only people who are considered to be widely shared and mocked on news sites, bringing angry trolls to the comments. Or I can post publicly when I have innocuous cute cat pictures to share, and I don't mind wide exposure and re-sharing.

    I don't think this is a fundamental tension when designing social media systems in attracting users. There are certainly other approaches

  What if users could choose to publish posts at a disadvantage in the news)

• By seeing interesting posts by people they may or may not know

Since social media software, and there are lots of questions here around encryption targets, revocation, etc.

If most users use pseudonyms and avatars rather than sticking with what they're probably not jerks!

This would enable a very good chance they in fact know each other's posts, maybe they would recognize each other's posts, maybe they would recognize each other. ("Oh, she's a writer, who lives in Springfield, and was at that dinner with D... that must be Beth Jacobson!") But there's nothing to say this could not be a combination of those two, assuming a system where you cannot get a comprehensive list of these 1-degree-out users, and even if I have them friended. More broadly, I can also be assured that my friends-locked: Only people who are friended or otherwise granted general access

Privacy-positive social media software is by default at a disadvantage in the last category. How can it be made competitive with the likes of Twitter and Facebook without compromising on values? In this space. Please leave a comment or send an email!