I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

  • infinitepcgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’m in favor of federation. The point of federated networks isn’t that there are no evil corporations, but rather that they can’t cause damage.

    What Facebook can do:

    • read your public data (they can do this wether anyone federates with them or not)
    • let their users publish content to other Fediverse users

    What they can’t do:

    • serve you ads
    • serve you an algorithmic feed
    • impose their ToS or rules
    • collect data for analytics/tracking/marketing
    • force you to use a certain client
    • make changes to the protocol or design

    I think this is mostly relevant for Mastodon servers due to the format of the content, but the arguments are the same.