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Two spooky think tanks with their eye on controlling the fediverse (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by davel@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net

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The American “intelligence community” wants to control the narratives on federated social media, as they already do on corporate social media.

Atlantic Council: Collective Security in a Federated World
Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund: Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps

The whole “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” discourse was/is a psyop for top-down propaganda control. The Dem-aligned media did a bang-up job of discrediting Matt Taibbi such that his continued investigatory work into this intentionally opaque system is being ignored.

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[-] davel@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago

I think I know what their strategy will be already: Gain control of liberal/conservative instances, and cause the uncontrollable socialist instances to be defederated in order to isolate them. The instances that choose to federate with corpo social media will probably be the easiest to control and also have the largest user base. Running instances costs money without really making any, so there will be admins happy to accept assistance in the form of funding, but also in the form of “moderation” tooling and labor.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

Running instances costs money without really making any, so there will be admins happy to accept assistance in the form of funding, but also in the form of “moderation” tooling and labor.

How do we solve this issue?

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Have something set up so users can donate to server costs etc? I was a monthly donor when I was on Mastodon and even during my brief stint at Beehaw, and I have been meaning to figure out how to donate to Hexbear.

~~I know it's easier said than done, and there are larger complications for Hexbear regarding payment processors and whatnot; like, how do you accept money without doxxing yourself or your donors?~~ also, I am a dingus who should occasionally poke around the website instead of just using an app all the time