The author is a tech lawyer. I think the article is there to start discussion. I agree with him that if private venues allow people to record like this they should offer, at the very least, an opt out. "Purple lanyard" seems like a good way. It's also a pretty easy spot in post production where you can either blur or cut as appropriate.
It's all about balance. Private venues want their customers to have the best experience they can so they will want to come back. The purple lanyard solution MIGHT work, depending on the ratio of people wearing them and the number of people filming. Or it might be that lots of people want to film and the one guy with the purple lanyard keeps getting in the shot and ruining it. Or it might be too many people want to film and end up ignoring it. But in the best case, it allows youtubers to make their videos while not requiring those who don't want to be in them to stay home, as non-customers.
I occasionally see people saying “well, if you don’t want to be in photos published online, don’t be in public spaces”.
This is nonsense, for a number of reasons. Clearly, one should be able to exist in society, including going outside one’s own home, without needing to accept this kind of thing.
In any case, here, the issue is somewhat different, since it is a private site, where people engage in private activity (a hobby).
Amazon don't check returns either. It's a nightmare if you use their FOB service. We've had product returned, not checked and then shipped to another customer who then pputs in a claim because they didn't get what they ordered - because Amazon didn't check the return. Amazon then claim you're selling counterfeit goods.
Entirely why we no longer use their service and ship direct for amazon orders. Some people still try the trick but we always put a claim in and amazon after they automatically give a refund to the buyer, and Amazon pay it. So Amazon pay twice. Maybe the cost of just accepting that loss is less than having someone check the return.
The way you find stuff on the fediverse is searching for hashtags. I have wildly differing interests and it's perfectly fine for me. I have load of topics and a feed that updates at a reasonable rate. following people who share your interests exposes you to other conversations with with other people.
If you wont use it until it's twitter, just use twitter. The fediverse doesn't want to be twitter.
Very few care if most people don't want to use it because they've been using it quite happily for years before twitter imploded. blusky looking at payment for likes is a joke too.
Running an instance isn't expensive. Running an instance with 10,000 users might be, but you don't have to have lots of users. I run an instance and I can and do easily communicate with lots of other people on other instances without much effort at all.
I'd say that I've managed to find more people, with less effort who share some of the same interests as me and honestly I don't know which instance they are on because it didn't matter. Using hashtags to find content that you like, following a handfull of people and suddenly your feed comes alive.
Perhaps we should stop teating users like morons. Sure it's different but people learn.
