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i learned about GNU Taler the other day from one of the OS communities
i learned about GNU Taler the other day from one of the OS communities
the problem occurs when most of the content comes from Meta (they will likely have the vast majority of Fediverse users). especially if major communities exist on their instance. when meta decides to no longer support fedi integration, those in the fedi are forced to decide between staying with their communities by ditching the fedi and moving to threads or having many of their communities ripped away.
meta will do this at some point as a play to draw users to them, but we can decide if we want to be affected when that comes to pass.
Facebook could just create fake users that post ads as content
they may be able to read certain data from another instance but their current platform allows complete surveillance of what you looked at, how long, every click and scroll, etc while also being able to feed that in to manipulating what you see.
imo it will be basically impossible to have that kind of impact on people from instances not controlled by them, particularly if the other instance defederates so they don’t see meta instance content.
not that i don’t think you could ask about them here, but there are a number of self host communities that you should check out, here are two of the bigger ones:
!selfhosted@lemmy.world !selfhost@lemmy.ml