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FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform (wedistribute.org)

submitted 1 year ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Um, isn't everything everyone does on the fediverse public? I assume it's all being tracked already. By search engines as a bare minimum, but anyone else (including Meta) who does any kind of research/etc. And they don't need to be federated to do it, they can just crawl the network with HTTP.

As for "forcing networks to play by their rules" I don't see that happening, and Google hasn't done it with email. Gmail doesn't have enough marketshare for that. At best they've forced people to make sure they have good outbound spam filtering. That's not just google, every email provider (including small on premise office mail servers) has that policy.

I'm not saying we should federate them (personally I'm undecided) but your explanation hasn't convinced me.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

Instance owners (can) see way more info about you. A rando scraping public posts can't tell what device a user is connecting from, what posts they're looking at and for how long, where to most effectively inject ads, and then correlate all that with gps and sound recordings they collect via their app they've convinced people to install.

The social media part of social media apps has always been the secondary feature. Something like 90% of users lurk anyway, the only way they're getting data on lurkers is a man-in-the-middle attack.

Also, Gmail is very strong in the email space. It doesn't matter whether your server ever sends a single piece of spam, Gmail has a history of throttling mail servers' ability to send to Gmail accounts.