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A park is in public view.

A library is in public view.

Omegle was in private, away from public view.

No one needs to keep anyone off Omegle now, it is gone.



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Not private any more.

Publicly accessible? Tiny bits and peaces here and there since Eternal September.

Private? That's up to each of us.


Then don't use it. There, it's private again.

Private. Not offline.

It was public a few minutes ago.

Suddenly, cats.

Now it is private.


When you invite the public in, it's public. Maybe not quite the same way as a city park, but it's not wholly private either. That's both obvious in a common-sense way, and part of the law. It's just not really been applied to the Internet yet.

It’s private.

It's private.

It's going from public to private. Everyone is gonna know a lot less.

> That people use it does not make it a public platform.

This is literally the definition of the word public.


So the public access one isn't private and secure?

>Independent, peer to peer social media, for example, “dark web”, or just plain old WWW / Gopher /forums discovered without the private search platforms.

Those are still private platforms. With enough pressure you can get an ISP to cancel someones service, or get a domain service/hosting provider to cancel them, etc, etc.


That's for private IM save channels, Mastodon and all of the Activity Pub it's for public showcasing.

If you are in PUBLIC, that is by definition NOT PRIVATE.

As far as I’m aware, there’s no such thing as “public space” on the web.

Ultimately, data is always served from someone’s private server somewhere.


Is now private? I can't see it.

That only became true recently. Used to be public by default

You can do that without the “making it private and public again” part anyway.

"When you set your SmugMug gallery to 'private', this is exactly what you're doing - making the gallery and photos difficult, but not impossible, to find."

Is that the usual definition of 'private'?

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