cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7193618
The “free fediverses” are regions of the fediverse that reject Meta and surveillance capitalism. This post is part of a series looking at strategies to position the free fediverses as an alternative to Threads and “Meta’s fediverses”.
dipshit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are there any instances that aren’t free? Instances which run ads and tracking?
thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Today almost no instances run ads (misskey is as far as I know the only platform that’s got support for ads) and Threads is the only one that does tracking. I’m using “free fediverses” the way freefediverse.org/index.php/Main_Page does – instances that reject federation with Meta.
dipshit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You do realize that federating with meta doesn’t mean that the instances which allow federation with meta will be tracked more, right? Meta users are going to be tracked as much as meta users are going to be tracked. The old tricks that facebook used to do to track everyone with a facebook account everywhere on the net don’t really work any more in modern browsers and won’t ever work on an instance that doesn’t have a facebook “share this link” or “like button” integration.
Technically, if an instance did have those buttons and facebook users in older browsers used those instances, that would be tracked by meta, even if the instance itself didn’t federate with meta.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
There are pay to join instances. Not many, but they exist.
There’s also at least one add supported Misskey instance
dipshit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And of those pay to join instances, do we know they are tracking their users without their consent? That would be the only real issue here (tracking without consent)