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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Imho, it’s a bit like a water fountain. You wouldn’t ask before filling up your bottle. In both cases you as an individual are costing the business pennys.

    The only place you mentioned that I personally wouldn’t do it is a store, but that’s mostly because to charge your phone you kinda have to sit by the outlet and I personally see stores as places of movement where hanging out is discouraged. You are supposed to buy something and leave.

    But for doctors offices, you’re probably fine, and libraries you 100% all g.











  • I’m no federation or csec expert but the big issue is storing the the user keys. Though maybe the keys could just be the user’s password. But then you have to trust that your instance isn’t stealing it.

    You could have them checksummed by the lemmy/kbin/mastodon devs, but then now you have to trust them.

    At some point you’d need a centralized authority, which is kinda against the whole point of the fediverse.