Why Defederating from Facebook/Meta is So Important (ploum.net)
I strongly encourage instance admins to defederate from Facebook/Threads/Meta....
I strongly encourage instance admins to defederate from Facebook/Threads/Meta....
Post cree le : 2024-04-27 a 06H01mn58s GMT-Time
except for the ‘‘new experiences’’ sentence it’s a lovely article :)
In the early 90s, after tweaking my MS-DOS computer, I was able to play games. One of those game was called “Battle Chess”. A Chess game were pieces were really fighting against each other. It was fun. I was, and still am, a mediocre chess player. I was mate in less than 10 or 15 turns at the easiest level.
With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.
This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance
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Coffret sympa
A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.
“It feels like everyone is now choosing its side. You can’t stay in the middle anymore. You are either dedicating all your CPU cycles to run JavaScript tracking you or walking away from the big monopolies. You are either being paid to build huge advertising billboards on top of yet another framework or you are handcrafting...
Why YSK: If we want to keep the Fediverse in the hands of its users and prevent "enshittification" (search it), it's good to know how corporations kill grassroots projects like this....
Quelques argument contre les personnes qui veulent absolument protéger le travail. Les liens dans le liens sont aussi intéressant (et le blog aussi d’ailleurs).
Przepaść dzieląca Internet na dwie części rośnie. Po jednej stronie znajduje się Internet komercyjny, opanowany przez monopolistów, skupiony wokół mediów. Internet mający tylko jeden cel: zmusić nas do klikania. Mierzy kliknięcia, optymalizuje kliknięcia, generuje kliknięcia. Zbiera o nas tak dużo informacji,...
When corporate entities infiltrate decentralized networks/platforms, they do it methodically with the intent to harm the decentralized platform in order to maintain the corporate monopoly.
I’ve suddenly been excluded from all the conversations with my friends because I very slightly but unacceptably deviated from the norm....
There’s an increasing chasm dividing the modern web. On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web which has only one objective: making us click. It measures clicks optimise clicks, generates clicks. It gathers as much information as it could about us and spams every second of our life with ads,...
cross-posted from: lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/357098...