Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.

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    Judging from their past and all the bad actions they have done in the past, bad for democracy, privacy, minorities and marginalised people and how openly they have a far/extreme-right bias. Well I feel extremely negative about them joining in. They were also part of destruction of another open/federated protocol in the past: they played big part in destroying XMPP/Jabber messaging. So I am afraid they will do their usual embrace, extend, and extinguish thing and their surveillance capitalist thing and yeah. no good. Best to block their instances outright.

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    Even if they were somehow not evil, the sheer volume would technologically destroy any instance that tried to federate with them.

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    It’s the old Microsoft strategy again - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

    They deserve a good boot up the arse before they put one up our’s.

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    we shouldnt let them in. they would have done decentralized service years ago if there was money in it for them. They either want us to stop or try to seize control in only way that can -> by worming in.

    We must have zero-tolerance for corporations or we might as well just give up.

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      We must have zero-tolerance for corporations or we might as well just give up.

      As long as servers cost money to run, corporations will need to be involved.

      At a fundamental level, it’s either

      a) run by donations as a non profit, but as we’ve seen from wikipedia it will be a constant struggle to have enough money to last indefinitely (especially since Reddit / kbin / lemmy cost a lot more to run than Wikipedia)

      b) run by subscriptions, which will greatly limit growth, reach, search engine optimization, etc.

      c) run by advertising in which case corporate ad networks (like the kind that Meta runs) will need to be involved or

      d) have instances that are government run / paid for, but it would be difficult to accomplish on a global scale and may come with restrictions that not everyone is happy with

      It sucks but those are pretty much the only four options for running a digital community that requires paid servers and hosting space. Either corporations or some large government organization are going to have to be involved.

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        About your first point, I’ve heard that Wikipedia is actually very wealthy and doesn’t need the money. They essentially run a scam every year asking for more.

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          I don’t understand why everyone freaks out that wikipedia tries to keep a reserve. Yes, they have enough money on hand to run for a few years… Is that really such a bad thing? Why does everyone think nonprofits should be scrimping by before they do their next donation campaign?

          To me, keeping a reserve fund just seems like good money management, and I’d rather donate to an organization that manages their money well than one that doesn’t. If there were problems with a large chunk of donations not going to wikipedia upkeep it would be different, but as far as I can tell all of the controversy is just over the fact that they have a reserve at all

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            The biggest problem is the fact they beg for donations and the wording makes it seem like they are about to shut down unless you donate right now. They are disingenuous.

            No one said having reserve funds is bad. Just don’t act like you’re about to shut down Wikipedia to get more money when you literally have millions in reserve. It’s scummy.

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    I’m trying to get away from Facebook and meta. I’d rather they weren’t remotely near me at all

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      Exactly my thoughts, I don’t trust meta or zucky’s leadership, their motives will always be profit over everything else

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      Is that necessary though? I feel like we should let them join. If they do something malicious, then we can block them. IMO, it doesn’t make sense to just preemptively block them for no real reason.

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        They’ve demontrated their evil nature in the past, promoting divisive and inciteful material and anything to drive engagement for the sake of advertiser dollars. I don’t think we need to wait for them to do it again in the Fediverse. Better to head that shit off right up front.

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        It is wholly necessary. They will start massive data mining operations if they join, harming users of all instances.

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          Data mining can happen without any of that, everything you post in the fediverse is literally available for anyone to see. Realistically, the most harm they can do is build controlled communities that grow so huge that they drown out all of the fediverse’s open communities.

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          I don’t think I could disagree more. We value the fact that this tech can be scraped, API’d and redistributed. That’s kinda point and partial cause of the protesting going with Reddit at this moment. ???

          We have abilities to block it ourselves. We want options and features to customize our personal experiences as we see fit. That’s what we are trying to build here.

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    They will datamine all federated users They will set up a CDN for uploads on their platform that will track you like v.meta.com or i.meta.com.

    They will probably train LLMs off the data. They will sell the data to advertisers or data brokers. They will most likely have ads or pay to boost.

    They will diverge from the standard once they have the majority of users like google does with chrome and the web.

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      I would hope their instance would get pretty immediately defederated. If not, it’s worth moving to an instance that doesn’t federate with them.

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      They will set up a CDN for uploads on their platform that will track you like v.meta.com or i.meta.com.

      This is the only thing they couldn’t already do. They’ve probably already been datamining Fediverse users. No need to set up an instance for that.

      I agree with the v.meta.com and i.meta.com. We’ll have to establish some good alternatives by then so people don’t use them just because they work so well.

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    I guess I’ll just go back to reading books and watching movies full time.

    Fuck all of those tech giants.

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    It’s an easy fix. If an instance you’re a part of federates with them then just move to a new instance.

    Hopefully this will put instance blocking on the top of the list.