Decentralization against AI:
Big Tech's sole interest is to control the narratives through biases, algorithms, #AI.
In the past, they bought newspapers and journalists; now they buy platforms and bots. But without users, they have no value. Underfeeding #centralized networks is the way against AI
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@elduvelle #Signal is #centralized - just like #Twitter, #WhatsApp, #Telegram, #Threema, etc - and therefore exactly as vulnerable to #enshittification. Its popularity also makes it a tempting target for backdoors.
I urge people to use #XMPP instead, which is #federated like the Fediverse and has no single point of failure. It uses the same end-to-end encryption algorithm as Signal.
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@signalapp It's not #disinfo when one points out that you demand #PII aka. #PhoneNumbers from Users and that is literally a architectural vulnerability, alongside your #proprietary & #Centralized #Infrastructure.
Not to mention the lack of @torproject / #Tor support with an #OnionService or the willingness to fulfill #cyberfacist "Embargoes" or shilling a #Shitcoin #Scam named #MobileCoin!
And don't get me started on the #cyberfacism that is #CloudAct.
I may nit have allvthe.evidence yet, but #Signal stenches like #ANØM: #Honeypot-esque!
@ueeu I think crucial parts is looking at it's components, dependencies, size and for apps permissions.
#ReproduceableBuilds for example are important, so the actually released source code is what people actually get served as basis.
Plus in terms of #security, choose *real #E2EE with #SelfCustody of all the #Keys!
@tshirtman @mloxton @tarheel @inthehands
agreed. in this regard, #socialMedia can be a force multiplier for good as well as what it is now: a force multiplier for #bigotry and #plutocracy
but that makes our communities a target
so we need something like #mastodon where we can squash the #trolls without the "fReEzEpEaCh!" #bigoted morons and #centralized #corporate social media indifference or tacit support for #ignorance and #hate
we need the #fediverse to grow
Welcome.
It's not perfect here.
Nowhere is.
You'll find many others here in #sanctuary like yourself, and myself.
Together we can take #Mastodon beyond mere sanctuary and grow to kill #centralized #plutocrat #socialMedia.
I know, I know.
One can dream.
I need this dream. Many of us do.
We'll dream together.
@SearingTruth @hamishb @JapanProf
i disagree
if something is #decentralized it can't be taken over by #venturecapital
that's a huge difference in my view
you're worried about the dominant human sentiment
positive aspects of human sentiment can become dominant again in a system where #ignorance and #indecency is warded against, rather than amplified on purpose by #plutocrat agendas like on #centralized #socialmedia
a system like the #fediverse #mastodon *has* to grow
to save us
@moh_kohn except @signalapp too is a #centralized, #SingleVendir & #SingleProvider solution that fully falls under #CliudAct and thus CANNOT comply with #GDPR & #BDSG as a matter of principle since this digital rquivalent of #ExtraordinaryRendition is inherently incompatible!
@monocles / #monoclesChat, @gajim / #gajim & @delta / #deltaChat, @thunderbird / #Thunderbird do support that!
@gooba42 @Harrybear @thebadastronomer
and #moderation
for #corporate #centralized #plutocrat #socialmedia moderation is a cost center. the imperative is to reduce cost
so they say "#freespeech"
aka: the most antifreedom #bigot can spew their mental vomit
doesn't matter: it's just about less mods to hire
furthermore #hate attracts #drama, drama attracts attention and emotional thrall
rotting our psychology, society, politics-
but
that thrall means they get to serve you more ads
I may have already posted this, but a good metric to consider with an organization I've been thinking about lately is, "how fucked would you be if the person in charge suddenly became a full on Nazi?"
With a #centralized Network like #BlueSky, where you can't just pick up and go somewhere else, you are absolutely fucked. Everything you have work to build on that network is now part of a Nazi Network, whose systems are run by Nazis for the Nazi effort. This is what happened on #Twitter: the company was bought by a Nazi who made it a Nazi propaganda mill.
With a #decentralized network like #Fediverse, you don't have that problem.
Even if Eugen Rochko randomly decided that, instead of photos, he was into bringing back the Third Reich, and that #Mastodon would now be software explicitly for pushing the white supremacist agenda, we would just move on and let the forks pick up where he'd left off.
Even if the #ActivityPub team became a White Semen Cult of some kind, the protocol is public: we'd be fine.
@FediTips Yes but if you are only on one server, and your server goes down, you and your users are screwed, unless you are on every single blasted server! #centralized #disadvantages
this #whataboutism blows my mind
your rationale is the same as "sure russia invaded ukraine, but we can't go after them because usa and china are also bad"
#tiktok is rat poison
kill it
that #facebook is also rat poison and should also be killed has absolutely zero bearing on that
i cannot for the life of me comprehend this showboating on some sort of impotent high mindedness over tiktok, merely because other #centralized #socialmedia shit still exists
utterly alien and absurd
"what's most important to me is that the method by which #centralized #socialmedia is disposed of occurs according to the most high minded of principles"
do you understand the stakes here?
do you really?
do you understand what whataboutism is?
"well we can't punish russia for attacking ukraine, because usa and china are also bad"
what's wrong with that statement?
do you see?
fuck #facebook
but defending #tiktok because facebook still exists is utterly clueless impotent bullshit
"Appeals court upholds #TikTok ban, declining to block law that would force sale"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-ban-appeals-court-congress/
A disturbing thing I've encountered on #Mastodon #Fediverse are voices not necessarily defending TikTok, but disliking the method
Who gives a fuck
High minded but impotent reasons to showboat on the topic, with zero awareness of the stakes is clueless
#Democracy around the world is getting murdered by #centralized #socialmedia
Kill it. Now. Any way
"But #Facebook..."
Oh shut up
eugen it's good news, but only in the scope of championing #activitypub
i don't think when you made #mastodon 8 yrs ago you thought "yes! i get to work with #facebook someday!"
i'm happy you're happy but i step back and see #threads #interop as sad
what you and your team built is amazing and i appreciate all you've done
because it is #decentralized
it's not #centralized #socialmedia hell that is eating our psychology, our societies, our politics
it should stay that way
sure but even if the #democrats had the best messaging on the world, the #plutocrats own the #socialmedia channels- the #algorithms
and the structure of #centralized social media itself rewards #troll #brigades
thus, no message in the world can compete in that rigged game
the future is this, right here: #mastodon
of course, it's a pebble next to a mountain
and it needs some more tweaks
but this is where we fight back, with our own channels free of #plutocracy
i'm so so thankful for #mastodon and #fediverse now
it has plenty of problems
but it is a bulwark from the forces out in #centralized #socialmedia land under #plutocracy zombifying our fellow citizens, indoctrinating them into their own doom, and they're too stupid to see it
some like mastodon small and fringe
i don't
we need to grow it into an iron #sanctuary, at least
and, in my dreams, fediverse takes on the behemoths eating our brains, our communities, our nations
and it's working like it didn't work in the past
because of this brand new weapon for right wing stupid bullshit:
#centralized social media controlled by #plutocrats to establish a safe haven for #troll brigades to work their indoctrination on fear and hate...
in some ways, this a greater threat to #civilization than #nuclearweapons
right but making our own is the adaptation you are referring to
we can't compete in a rigged game
#plutocrat controlled #centralized #socialmedia is a rigged game
if the #democrats commit resources to competing in that arena, they will lose, and it will be preordained
so it's better to not even try the rigged game, and just set up our own alternative
i don't think a #mastodon alternative for the #democrats will be unicorns and rainbows, it will have all the same problems as #centralized #socialmedia in regards to #moderation and #trolls
except it won't be controlled by the #plutocrats with their thumb on the #algorithms. #progressive and #democratic voices can't get any traction there
all mastodon offers is a way out from that rigged game scenario. a lot of building to do, but we can't play in their rigged game
