Yeah I stopped reading the article once it mentioned people getting annoyed and wanting to control who sees their public content. You don't get to make that call. The community doesn't get to make that call. The protocol makes that call and the protocol allows anybody to view stuff you post publicly. You don't get to say "I publish this but Meta can't view it". Not even legally you don't. That's not privacy and no amount of "web3" is going to fix that.
Copyright cannot restrict who can view a work you created once you transfer or license that work to somebody else (e.g. by releasing it publicly on the fediverse). You don't get to say "here's my post but if you show it to Meta then that's illegal". We don't even have a common legal framework for dealing with content distribution that isn't copying (we got "lucky" that you have to copy content to view it digitally so copyright can be poorly jammed onto the digital content distribution model and everything doesn't burn down).
Where the heck did people get the idea that they get to dictate how culture spreads and evolves?
Copyright cannot restrict who can view a work you created once you transfer or license that work to somebody else (e.g. by releasing it publicly on the fediverse). You don't get to say "here's my post but if you show it to Meta then that's illegal". We don't even have a common legal framework for dealing with content distribution that isn't copying (we got "lucky" that you have to copy content to view it digitally so copyright can be poorly jammed onto the digital content distribution model and everything doesn't burn down).
Where the heck did people get the idea that they get to dictate how culture spreads and evolves?