[2020] [opinion] Switching from Facebook to the Fediverse: What's stopping us?
[2020] [opinion] Switching from Facebook to the Fediverse: What's stopping us?
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This question is particularly relevant for non-profits working in the field of human rights – especially those who are familiar with the problems inherent in Facebook’s attention-based business model.
In other words, doing human rights advocacy through Facebook could be a case of “one step forward, two steps back”: Though awareness and even impact may be achieved on a particular progressive front, it comes at the cost of all the economic, social, and political problems associated with surveillance capitalism.