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  • What a wild conspiracy theory.

    Legally, they can’t collect and process any of the data unless you accepted a contract with them. Just by sending an upvote or a comment to their instance, you don’t agree to any of this.

    And if they choose to ignore the law and just do it anyway, they still can’t, because all they have is the data that your instance sends them. They don’t have your geo-location, device Id, etc.



  • I’m in favor of federation. The point of federated networks isn’t that there are no evil corporations, but rather that they can’t cause damage.

    What Facebook can do:

    • read your public data (they can do this wether anyone federates with them or not)
    • let their users publish content to other Fediverse users

    What they can’t do:

    • serve you ads
    • serve you an algorithmic feed
    • impose their ToS or rules
    • collect data for analytics/tracking/marketing
    • force you to use a certain client
    • make changes to the protocol or design

    I think this is mostly relevant for Mastodon servers due to the format of the content, but the arguments are the same.