There is a special circle of hell for lackeys who legitimise surveillance capitalists like Facebook and aid their efforts to take over (or at least sabotage) emergent non-corporate spaces like the fediverse when they should be protected from them at all costs. Those who give them every benefit of the doubt and temper all historic evidence of wrongdoing with anecdotes of the very good people they know who work there in good faith. You know who you are and exactly what you’re doing. Shame on you.

@aral Watching Facebook vs Fediverse is like watching a teen slasher film, where the protagonists _know_ who the killer is and they still invite him in the house because he hasn't killed any of them yet.

And you're just standing there, yelling at the screen, because you saw them watching him murder everyone else in the neighborhood.

Stephen Farrugia (@[email protected])

best not find yourself defending a brand

🌱 hci.social
@aral If the Dante's Inferno game was published these days this (circle 10. Surveillance) would be a nice DLC :P
@aral I won't give up communication with my friends for ideology. Almost any micro blogging platform on the fediverse gives an incredible amount of control to the users to curate their feed as they wish. I don't want anyone to handhold me and make these decisions for me.

@dusnm this is exactly how I feel as well. I think the idea that “oh, if they won’t follow me they’re not really friends” is incredibly mean-spirited when most folks don’t want to deal with moving their online presence around every other year.

And let’s be real, Facebook doesn’t need to integrate with federated spaces to get the data they want- they’ll just do it regardless.

@aral Dude, you're teaching art at the rec center.
Calm down.
@jeffdanielsHSJ I guess that makes you the janitor around here?
@aral when i left all those shitty platforms, I said if you want to communicate, come on Signal or call me! I lost many "friends" who actually weren't really ... And I don't have any news anymore, and that's fine, I don't give a sh*t!