2y ago

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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@thenexusofprivacy @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediverse@kbin.social I can’t see how anyone can stop Meta. They will do what they want with their tens of millions of insta accounts that will immediately take over. Other than existing in a walled-off server I can’t see what can be done to stop them.
- @Chimaera We can't stop Meta from doing what they want with the millions of Insta accounts, and we can't stop instances who want to work with Meta from working with Meta. We can however have a Meta-free region of the fediverse, and it's very likely to be better in a lot of ways than the Meta-friendly region.
  @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediverse@kbin.social
- 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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