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Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! (infosec.exchange)
submitted 2 years ago by thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[-] vamp07@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I welcome META.  The whole point of having a federation is to allow others to join. It’s up to you as a user, or the host of your instance to decide if they connect to those servers, I would stay away from an instance that did not want to include them, or at least let me as a user connect to them

this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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