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It's an important thought to have, and it's been going around in other circles too. What you post here is public, and you have absolutely no control of where it goes or who it spreads to. I'm all for it, I think open socials are important to not lock out anyone, and if you don't like something as an individual you can block and as a server owner you can defederate. The flipside though is that anyone can spin up a server and do whatever they like with what you post. Train LLMs, save in a gov database, just count votes, whatever they like. This is the tradeoff of corporate social media.
Thank you for the reminder.
Wanted to post this yesterday but I wanted to wait a bit more
Is that why it's called fed-iverse and pie-fed?
Yup! Itβs built off a collection of federated instances. Mean each instance is distinct, but still operates as part of a whole.
Itβs not a monolithic platform like Reddit or Facebook that is controlled by a single entity.
(they were hinting at feds as in federal agencies, often used as a proxy for govts and 3 letter agencies, police forces, etc)
Yeah that went clear over my head after re-reading his meme.
understandable, happens to the best of us
Isn't this true for all social media, and anything posted on the public web?
Yes but that's been lost on people unfortunately. It's a lesson only millennials and gen X have retained in my experience, growing up with it we were drilled in to not trust anyone on the internet.
Boomers have forgotten and never learned it for themselves.
Gen Z grew up with walled gardens and thinking their accounts were private.