Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ!

https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/

Contents:

- Two views of the fediverse
- The case for “Trust but verify”
- Wait a second. Why should anybody trust Facebook, Instagram, or Meta?
- Why the Anti-Meta FediPact is good strategy
- We’re here, we’re queer, fuck Facebook
- A few words about digital colonialism
- Now’s a good time for instance admins to discuss with their communities
- In chaos there is opportunity!

@fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediverse@kbin.social #fediverse #Meta #FediPact

  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    The freedom given can also be used by them. Meta could make a federated Lemmy instance any moment for example. Federated services aren’t more private than centralized ones, its just that with the latter it has to do less work scanning and has a little more control. In the end everything said here is going to be scraped and logged eventually by a third party