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@emberquill@tech.lgbt @simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org @joshbressers@infosec.exchange since it's their own fediverse-enabled client with #ActivityPub, anything they add to their version wouldn't get transferred to non-#Project92 platforms. Any such ad or spam accounts can be blocked. Also, the same holds true for many instances. I'm not saying it'll be fine, but I'm also thinking that there will be people who'll first use the fediverse through this and can be swayed away from Meta when they follow non-Meta accounts

@emberquill@tech.lgbt @simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org @joshbressers@infosec.exchange in the end I do think they'll end up getting defedersted en-masse at the first sign of nefarious activity and I will support such actions.

@simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org @emberquill@tech.lgbt @joshbressers@infosec.exchange my point is, they can take digital fingerprints now. I also am not sure if defederate-on-site will prevent EEE from happening considering how many instances have said they wouldn't, and now how there's instances saying they'll defederate those ones too. It has always been a matter of time, since it is FOSS, before companies make their way here. I do think that #ActivityPub is structured in such a way to be naturally resistant to it.

@simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org @joshbressers@infosec.exchange I don't think defederation should be the default for whatever Meta's service even ends up being. I do think that there should be plenty of instances that do, so that the people who are actively running away from FB and corporate social media have an option, but I think defederating from instances that don't defederate from Meta would be exactly the sort of cannibalistic division that would enable Meta to get a larger share of Fediverse users.

@emberquill@tech.lgbt @simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org @joshbressers@infosec.exchange defederating wouldn't prevent that. Them having a service in the fediverse doesn't give them more access to our information than they already have now. #ActivityPub isn't private.

@emberquill@tech.lgbt @simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org @joshbressers@infosec.exchange like somehow getting ads on the feed for my current mastodon account? wouldn't be any different than muting or blocking the irrelevant posters in the hashtags I follow, since there's no way they'd be able to do actual sponsored posts, as far as my understanding of Mastodon goes. Or so you mean using what i post on mastodon to serve ads to me elsewhere? Because again, they already can do that and I have extensions and methods to circumvent that.