Comment on User-based vs. server-based content filtering in the fediverse
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 10 months ago
The problem is A) we are all small servers and will be overwhelmed by large instances B) threads, meta, Microsoft(or whoever) have a goal that is contrary to “surfing, meeting up and sharing”, its literally exclusively to make money out of it all (cue predatory algorithms). Their sole interest is making money. Only that does interest them. They don’t care about anything else, even if they have to pretend to “Love the Fediverse 💖💜💙” or “let’s try 😘 if you don’t like it just stop❤️❤️❤️!”, we love LGBT too “🥳🎉❤️💛💚💙💜” or whatever.
If you don’t see how they are going to do it, worry not, they have tens of thousands of paid people who’s sole interest/obligation/job is monetising.
It won’t be enough but block that shit right now or we’ll be in a worse situation.
PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You realize that there are bad actors everywhere. I won’t fear any corpo or government just because they are big or because they might change my environment. It is impossible to take down a decentralized network like the fediverse even if there are only 1000 people left using it. We can always adapt as we already did so many times and I can shape my environment the way I want it too. Who says that we have to be victims? Lets empower the users to make their own decisions.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 10 months ago
I like your energy and enthusiasm, and I share it quite much (I have my Lemmy server and all 😁🥳), but not fearing big govt or corpos, say if you can opt out going living in Russia or NK then you’d probably do it, it seems like a no brainer.
As you hint at, we might have to fight crap and stuff, and blocking Facebook is a good preventive defence IMO.