this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
227 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
37551 readers
278 users here now
A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Isn't that exactly how "embrace, extend, extinguish" works? Meta's huge numbers and publicity means that once it joins the Fediverse it will become the Fediverse, by sheer mass. Every other instance will be not even be a blip on the radar compared to theirs.
We get exactly one chance to refuse and it's here, at the start.
What is even their saving grace? Publicity? People will only see "Meta" and "Facebook" plastered everywhere. And you know they'll use their instance to archive and analyze everything, and build fake profiles, and cross-match them to Whatsapp and Facebook and Instagram, and push their algorithms to generate the top posts they want, and so on and so forth.
Meta/Facebook/Zuckerberg have done some of the most vile stuff to privacy. They've preyed on the personal data of billions of people. If there was such a thing as privacy genocide they'd be guilty of it.
This is like getting into the pool with a big hungry shark with syphilis. For goodness's sake, stop to think about it for a second.