"For your privacy and freedom's sake, it is important not to have an active #Facebook account; refusing blocks Facebook's main channel for collecting information about you and, through you, about your friends and relatives... Explaining to them why you firmly insist on routing your communications with them through some other system will strengthen your will power to resist systems that use you to harm you and others."
#RichardStallman, 2016
@hannah
> in my defense it was pretty small when i started
A lot of fediverse server admins seem to labour under the misapprehension they're obliged to have open sign-ups, and to keep them open even when they're being overwhelmed by newbies (not to mention spammers, trolls etc).
#PublicServiceMessage: They're not.
It's perfectly legitimate to make new accounts invite-only from Day 1, or to close signups when your population reaches whatever size you consider manageable.
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