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
@thenexusofprivacy @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediverse@kbin.social Meta and all its products are pretty much everything that the fediverse is not.
The fediverse :
- does not make money off of its users
- does not exploit its users
- does not discriminate
- does not tolerate hate, violence or abuse.
- does not moderate immorally
We are not aligned with Meta and their predatory practices. Therefore I think it’s completely valid and critical to defederate them.
@Kryostar @thenexusofprivacy @fediverse Is meta trying to make inroads into the fediverse? Please let me know so I can stomp down hard on that shit.
@Kryostar @thenexusofprivacy @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediverse@kbin.social
If you’re not on a Meta instance, then let users on such an instance care about themselves.
If your instance is affected by discrimination, hate, violence, abuse, immoral moderation due to how another instance is run, then that instance can be defederated soon enough, just like now. No need to do that pre-emptively because an instance is run by Meta or by whomever.
@sibrosan Or, if an instance that’s about to launch has a long history of discrimination, hate, violance, abuse, and contributions to genocide, you can announce your intention to defederate from them even before they launch.
Like I said in the post, opinions differ!
@thenexusofprivacy @Kryostar @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediverse@kbin.social
“you can announce your intention to defederate from them even before they launch.”
I would want my instance to abide by its stated server rules, without exceptions either way. That may mean defederation of an instance if it doesn’t ensure my instance’s users are protected from transgressions by its users, but not defederation because of an expectation it won’t. In case it proves necessary, defederation can be effected quickly enough.
