Facebook isn’t even recognizable as a company any more, they’ve become entirely overcome with greed, not even bothering to pretend to care about their users. All they’ve done for the past 15 years is copy other platforms, steal as much data as possible to sell to the highest bidder, and retain users by any means necessary, even if that means collapsing governments and allowing people to die. We need to do everything we can to keep them the hell away from us, because they’ve shown they will stop at nothing to make money.
It’s so interesting seeing the discourse on fedi about threads and meta - like I absolutely think it’s the right call for so many instances to not federate with meta because they for sure will be scraping user data and it will be a moderation nightmare, but this article raises a really valid point. Federation is almost a harm reduction approach for so many users who aren’t so privacy aware and are keen to be connected to their friends and family on threads.
I’m not a fan of the fedi superiority complex we so often see - people who use meta products aren’t a monolith, they’re people just like us, and a huge majority of them simply aren’t aware of the privacy implications of meta’s approach, or it’s not a huge priority for them.
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I’d rather keep anything Zuckerberg touches at double arms length.
Or tell threads they don’t belong. The fediverse is by the people for the people. Its not for some rich lizard to own
Facebook isn’t even recognizable as a company any more, they’ve become entirely overcome with greed, not even bothering to pretend to care about their users. All they’ve done for the past 15 years is copy other platforms, steal as much data as possible to sell to the highest bidder, and retain users by any means necessary, even if that means collapsing governments and allowing people to die. We need to do everything we can to keep them the hell away from us, because they’ve shown they will stop at nothing to make money.
It’s so interesting seeing the discourse on fedi about threads and meta - like I absolutely think it’s the right call for so many instances to not federate with meta because they for sure will be scraping user data and it will be a moderation nightmare, but this article raises a really valid point. Federation is almost a harm reduction approach for so many users who aren’t so privacy aware and are keen to be connected to their friends and family on threads.
I’m not a fan of the fedi superiority complex we so often see - people who use meta products aren’t a monolith, they’re people just like us, and a huge majority of them simply aren’t aware of the privacy implications of meta’s approach, or it’s not a huge priority for them.