Mastodawn

What is surveillance-fascism?
(a.k.a. what is the Fediverse missing?)

* big data
(collection of tons of private data used for profiling and authoritarian control)
* attention harvesting
(reducing attentionspan and causing addiction)
* ragebaiting
(hatred boosting alorithms & government botfarms)
* hyper-capitalism
(ads, more ads, profit, hidden ads, influencers, interrupting ads, plugs, camoflaged ads)
* AI

#SurveillanceFascism #SurveillanceCapitalism #enshittification #BigData #AttentionHarvesting #RageBait #HyperCapitalism #AI #LLMMeAlone #JoinTheFediverse

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skaphle Feb 25

@PaulaToThePeople While I agree in general, I have less optimism that the fediverse is really free from that.

Big data: most of Fedi is completely open. Isn't that an invitation to scrape? I'm pretty sure there's a lot authoritarians can do with that data even if it's not explicitly personal.

Ragebaiting: that depends also a bit on the habits of users. Sure, a lot is algorithms and bots on other platforms, but a lot of us, myself included, boost stuff that touch us emotionally, and sometimes stuff is shared faster than checked. It's certainly better here though and more of a challenge and a fault to overcome than something we have to endure helplessly.

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PaulaToThePeople 😷

@skaphle Yes sure data being scraped from the Fediverse happens like everywhere on the web. But big data is not used by Fediverse services.

Same whith ragebaiting: yes, it happens all over the internet. It's not programmed into Fediverse software though.