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With the launch of Threads, there's been a lot of interesting talk about the safety and privacy risks it poses to people on the fediverse, if and when Meta begins federating. But it's also worth examining the risks to the social systems....
Hi all, because this instance has tended to be somewhat unreliable, we'll be concentrating on the magazine at https://kbin.social/m/FediPact...
fedidb.org no longer has a list of FediPact instances for some reason....
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
For the moment kbin doesn't offer the possibility of blocking an instance. The only possibility if offers is to "silence" it, that means, the user don't see the posts from this instance, but the instance (Meta in this case) can access the data posted by the user....
Experts say it underscores the importance of encryption and minimizing the amount of user data tech companies can store
We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (https://vantaa.black/pact)...
I wrote an article outlining some of the reasons why I think we should defederate Meta.
It would be the cruelest of ironies if folks who are falling out of Reddit and trying to build a new community here on a community-controlled, non-corporate network were to find themselves getting sucked right back into invasive techbro-capitalism through a backdoor. But that's exactly what might happen....
Meta's upcoming 'P92' app is reported to have ActivityPub compatibility (link)...
I plead my case to Mastodon's lead dev @Gargron here: https://mstdn.patatas.ca/@smallpatatas/110516124221635618...
In 2017 Meta (Facebook, Instagram) approached the mercenary group NSO - which has been sanctioned by the US government for developing a cyberweapon that destroys all security on an iPhone - to purchase spyware which would infect the Apple devices of their users so they could be more easily surveilled
Exclusive: Calls for Meta to curb rise in scams on its platforms, which will cost UK households £250m this year
archived 6 May 2023 13:48:40 UTC
The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel
great collection of resources, writing, etc for supporters of a Fedi that's free from the clutches of surveillance capitalists. Thanks to @ophiocephalic for putting it together :)