• Quokka@quokk.au
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    11 months ago

    So basically media will have more ways to manipulate us by tracking our browsing habits, subscriptions, comments, etc.

    I’ll pass thanks.

    • spaduf@slrpnk.netOP
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      11 months ago

      I agree with your sentiment, but that is not at all what this article is about.

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      11 months ago

      Although I mirror your general sentiment, who is to say that the admins of lemmy.world, or kbin.social, or lemmy.ml, etc. etc. aren’t already doing what which you accuse “media”. It’s not at all implicit that privacy is guaranteed in this new Fediverse. Corrections welcome.

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        11 months ago

        Because it’s open source software and things such as mod logs are public to all.

        And it’s not about privacy, it’s about manipulation.

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          11 months ago

          One of the main benefits of open source software is that you can build it yourself or verify that a built blob is what it claims to be. If you’re using someone else’s instance then you don’t know that they haven’t made a change to it that could be doing something malevolent under the covers.

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    11 months ago

    So many words to say what is already very well known:

    Threads (and others) make proprietary, add ridden shitapps and get the fediverse content for free.

    This should be illegal. If you serve my content and put ads under and below it, you ought to pay me.

    Thats why threads will stay defederated for me (among other reasons)