I think people who are worried about Meta coming into Fedi and stealing all your data are seriously out of touch or just don't understand how the Fediverse works.
So, I'll spell it out.
Your data on Mastodon or wherever is public by default. Anyone, Meta, Google, Me, ANYONE can come in and take that data. That is the definition of *public*.
The only way that's different is if you've locked down your account. Which is something you have to do on your own.
@thelinuxcast I and others are more concerned that they will simply kill the growing fediverse - first they will federate, then they will extend the protocol (perhaps even through the w3c), then they'll not have to worry about the competition due to network effects so they'll just de-federate, or simply charge for access.
They already have their own partially-private internet, the only reason to federate is to kill the nascent competition.
@thelinuxcast there's plenty of reasons to not federate with Facebook:
It's tainted with non free code.
Ideologically dislike the company, and don't trust them with your data due to their repeated and blatant misuse of the data.
F*CK Zuckerberg.
There's absolutely no way they'll comply with post deletion settings. Ie. My content expiring after X months. Facebook should be required to comply with the standard here. Even GDPR is totally hazy here.
People think they'll be able to tap into messenger and message their friends and family - you won't, and never will. And still wouldn't trust them with your data.
People on Facebook are god awful and won't know that they're going full Karen on someone on another site.
@thelinuxcast recently we've seen Instagram and Reddit playing dodgey buggers trying to stop the flow of users going to the fediverse.
Doing things like shadow banning hashtags and blocking links to fediverse sites.
At the very least its our moral obligation that Facebook doesn't extract a cent of value from the fediverse. It's clear they think it'll be profitable for them. It's our turn to act like hyper capitalistic anti competitive assholes now and to stop them.
@cooopsspace Again, not disagreeing with you. You're having an argument with yourself. If that's how you want to spend your time, that's fine, but you're not going to change my mind, because I agree with you.
The purpose of my toot was to simply remind people that their data is not private on the Fediverse by default.
@cooopsspace I'm beginning to think that reading is not so much a skill you possess. Goodness, gracious.
My toot was not advocating for anything. Again, I would request that you read it before getting up on your high horse.
All I said was that your data on the Fediverse is not private unless you set it to be so. So having your reason for disliking Meta in the Fedi be them stealing data is asinine.
I gave no opinion on whether or not I think Meta in the fediverse is good or bad.
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