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Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! (infosec.exchange)
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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

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

their tens of millions of insta accounts that will immediately take over.

Take over what? Just because Lemmy and Mastodon both use the ActivityPub protocol, doesn't mean that those two work the same. It's not like Instagram posts will just show up in Lemmy communities. Yes, I'm aware that Lemmy and Mastodon can interact but you have to look up the post or person to interact with.

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