Comment on Discourse, the free forum platform, is now joining the Fediverse.
halm@leminal.space 10 months agoThe same technical thing, yes. The key difference really is whether or not a notoriously exploitative corporation is behind.
Comment on Discourse, the free forum platform, is now joining the Fediverse.
halm@leminal.space 10 months agoThe same technical thing, yes. The key difference really is whether or not a notoriously exploitative corporation is behind.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Except that since federating is a technical action we can look at, we can all of course see that it give Meta access to nothing that they couldn’t have scraped publicly.
halm@leminal.space 10 months ago
Sure, if that’s your only concern — and disregarding that it’s a minority who would likely have the time, diligence and knowhow to actually confirm that you’re right — but Meta’s interest in directly leaked or scraped data is probably secondary to embrace-extend-extinguish alternatives to their services. Discourse doesn’t exactly have that motive.