If you’re talking news media, much of their worst behavior is rooted in the ad-driven business model. Subscriptions would actually help make things better. Not sure if there’s a way to leverage the fediverse for a subscription play, though
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Marsupial@quokk.au 3 months ago
So basically media will have more ways to manipulate us by tracking our browsing habits, subscriptions, comments, etc.
I’ll pass thanks.
mulcahey@lemmy.world 3 months ago
raoulraoul@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Although I mirror your general sentiment, who is to say that the admins of lemmy.world, or kbin.social, or lemmy.ml, etc. etc. aren’t already doing what which you accuse “media”. It’s not at all implicit that privacy is guaranteed in this new Fediverse. Corrections welcome.
Marsupial@quokk.au 3 months ago
Because it’s open source software and things such as mod logs are public to all.
And it’s not about privacy, it’s about manipulation.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 months ago
One of the main benefits of open source software is that you can build it yourself or verify that a built blob is what it claims to be. If you’re using someone else’s instance then you don’t know that they haven’t made a change to it that could be doing something malevolent under the covers.
Marsupial@quokk.au 3 months ago
Luckily I’m self hosting, but you’re right there is a risk.
spaduf@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
I agree with your sentiment, but that is not at all what this article is about.