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Cake day: September 9th, 2021

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  • To be frank, the OP seems to have no understanding of the underlying technology at play here.

    I suggest to the OP to use umatrix webbrowser extension and examining what 3rd-party websites are contacted when you visit say… reddit, vs say… a mastodon instance.

    You will see that visiting a mastodon instance does not contact any 3rd-party trackers or ads.

    If this is not proof enough, then OP, you should realize that the whole point of the fediverse is to shed ourselves of the shitty ad-tech environment that arose during the 2010’s, there is not a centralized controller of a federated site like mastodon or peertube, so you can always spin up your own server that is completely free of tracking and just use that.

    I hope that makes sense.









  • Both tiktok/facebook encourage conformity, discourage intelligent thought, reward mindless consumption, shortens attention spans. the companies spy on users with impunity, and the software is locked down and impedes the open internet.

    There’s nothing inherently wrong with a service like this existing. facebook has pioneered this parasitic model, dominated the internet for years, the bar is so low that it cannot possible go lower.

    Intelligent families will prohibit their children from unrestricted access to websites like facebook/tiktok/youtube.

    All in all, it is a trend and will be replaced, and whatever replaces it will probably be an improvement.