[-] booty_flexx@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

[we are doing it for the] “integrity of information and resources connected to the Clemson network”.

They're not doing it to censor or discourage use. They're doing it because they don't want the software running on their network alongside their network resources.

You can still use tiktok, just not while connected to their network infrastructure.

[-] booty_flexx@lemmy.world 271 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To illustrate op's point I'm going to spin up an instance, federate with everyone, and not tell anyone what that instance is.

Then I'm going to feed all that data into my new website, called Open Lemmy Stats, where anyone can query the user data ive accumulated. The homepage will be ripe with insights, leaderboards and all kinds of data on prolific users.

Additionally, I'll display a snapshot/profile of a random user by feeding that users data to GPT4 to make inferences about the user's political affiliations and display the results.

Worst of all, I'm not going to out my instance for everyone to know it as the one to defederate. In fact I'm spinning up a few instances that will host innocuous communities that I plan to mod and support to give my instances cover for their true purpose: redundant fediverse datastreams for my site, Open Lemmy Stats.

I'll also have a store where anyone can buy my collected fediverse data for a handsome sum.

Just kidding I'm not doing any of this. But someone absolutely will or already is.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by booty_flexx@lemmy.world to c/artshare@lemmy.world

This is my wife's work, but I shot the photo and did some light editing. I also run her site https://flukelady.com which runs on FOSS, which i thought might be of interest to lemmy users :) I'm really enjoying this community, I hope you like what we do

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