The American “intelligence community” wants to control the narratives on federated social media, as they already do on corporate social media.
- Atlantic Council: Collective Security in a Federated World
- Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund: Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps
The whole “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” discourse was/is a psyop for top-down propaganda control. The Dem-aligned media did a bang-up job of discrediting Matt Taibbi such that his continued investigatory work into this intentionally opaque system is being ignored.
Mastodon is federated Twitter. Peertube is federated Youtube. Pixelfed is federated Instagram. Lemmy is federated Reddit. There are dozens of others. Most of them can talk to each other most of the time.
I was leaning more towards reddit-like platforms such as Lemmy but I wasn’t very clear about it in my comment