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!

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    • The Nexus of PrivacyOP
      8•1 year ago

      @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.

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    • @woelkchenEnglish
      1•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.

      • Robin
        1•1 year ago

        @woelkchen
        “Instead, based on the history of technology, the chances are overwhelming that such an app would be used by Meta with an embrace, extend and extinguish strategy, at the end of which the Fediverse would either have become irrelevant or effectively been taken over by Meta. So the much-heralded alternative to Twitter would become … Meta? I sure hope not.”

        https://reb00ted.org/tech/20230310-meta-activitypub/