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Meta and Mastodon: What’s really on people’s minds? (ianbetteridge.com)
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A very detailed article about the whole Meta (Instagram/Threads) vs. Fediverse discussions. It's a long read, but well-worth it if you're interested in the subject.

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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

If I run my own instance, I can choose who I share with and who I don't.

The simple fact of the matter is that I don't want my data to be Zucc'd, and clearly I'm not the only one who thinks that way.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago*

    Exactly, and that's why the response has been so negative. Every instance that federates with another stores a complete copy of the posts and comments from every federated user.

    If the majority of instances do not defederate from a Meta instance, that Instance will inevitably become the primary destination for discussion, even between and by non Meta-Instance based users, just because the communities in that Instance will be so large and active. And even if they don't, Meta Instance will have a stored copy of every community whose Instance is federated.

    Meta will then have carte blanche to collect data on a huge collection of users from outside their own Instance.

    I acknowledge that they could get the same data by scraping the public Instances anyway, but still... Fuck all of that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I don't use any Facebook products for a reason, and I would not want to have to move to a different instance if the one I chose would federate with Meta. And the same goes for other data-hoarding companies out there, in case they try to enter this space.

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