Lauren Weinstein
Matt Blaze@lauren I'm not sure I understand the objection. Why should I care, as a reader, what platform someone I follow uses to post, or, as a poster, what platform someone who wants to follow me reads me on?
Maxilo Overit@mattblaze @lauren Matt, this is a much discussed topic on Mastodon and social media generally. Here's the short objection list.
1) These other platforms like Threads are untrustworthy in that their access to your info may be monetized, ads sold or lists sold or otherwise compromise vulnerable people without any control short of defederating after the fact. Their track record is bad with regard to privacy and commercial subversion.
2) Exposing Federated users to bots, trolls, racists, Nazis and other malevolent users on the commercial algorithms without everyone's consent may degrade and pollute the social aspect of Mastodon in uncontrollable ways.
1) These other platforms like Threads are untrustworthy in that their access to your info may be monetized, ads sold or lists sold or otherwise compromise vulnerable people without any control short of defederating after the fact. Their track record is bad with regard to privacy and commercial subversion.
2) Exposing Federated users to bots, trolls, racists, Nazis and other malevolent users on the commercial algorithms without everyone's consent may degrade and pollute the social aspect of Mastodon in uncontrollable ways.
@aka_quant_noir @lauren I appreciate the polite response.
I think Mastodon needs to be able to withstand this; if it doesn't, it seems doomed whether Meta itself is involved or not. Perhaps this is a useful test.
Anyway, I have no idea what will happen, and obviously others are more alarmed about this than I am, so I'll respectfully decline to comment or inquire further.