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So it begins
Embrace
Extend
EXTERMINATE!
Sorry, sorry everyone. I'll clean that right up.
Dammit, I thought I'd fully flushed the quantum improbability matrix. Must be those damn infinite beer taps Tennant put in again. I mean, who the hell installs a kegerator on top of a mutliversic server? Last time I buy a used Tardis - this goddamn thing can't even make it through a decade without spewing wormholes. I am sooo goddamn sick of rounding up stray Daleks.
In the infinite multiverse, there's probably a dalek that's been reprogrammed as a beautician.
EXFOLIATE!
What’s the problem like? Before I do something stupid…
Ask yourself this: why have you come to the Fediverse in the first place?
Some people just went to Fediverse to migrate out of reddit. Might not be aware or still new in the realm of privacy protection.
I am one of those people who migrated, and I don't want to be part of any other social media plattform that is run by megacorps. (haven't found a good content rich alternative to youtube though)
I don’t know how futile this battle is, as it’s undeniable that content are still made on platforms hosted my those megacorps. For now I start with privacy friendly frontends. Libreddit for the reddit stuff and piped for youtube.
It kinda sucks that those megacorps lured the people/youth in with a prospect of fame and money to produce content for them. Turning what was once a creative pasttime into a tedious job.
Invidious exists. While it is still youtube it at the very least respects your privacy.
To own my own data and feed and have some control over what's pushed at me?
I mean, I get it. Some people hate X and Meta. I hate them too. But if my aim was to get away from those two, I'd be on Tumblr, not Mastodon. If I was concerned that my postings to "social media" can be abused, I wouldn't use Mastodon either, it's completely open and there's very little concept of privacy.
To put it bluntly, Meta doesn't even need to join the Mastoverse with an ActivityPub instance to vacuum up your Mastoverse data. It just needs single accounts to join the big instances and follow the "Federated feed" on them, doing a little algorithmic work to link accounts to Facebook accounts. It's actually easier for Meta to suck your data from the Mastoverse than it was Twitter or Tumblr. (I deadnamed X, because I assume X's position is so dire that if Meta offered to pay for everyone's feeds, Musk would sell it all. But Twitter, for all of its faults, wouldn't have done that.)
What I'm hoping is that Meta will follow through and join properly, offering ActivityPub feeds and the ability to subscribe to ActivityPub feeds. Doing so will give Meta's own users an off ramp, making it easier for Meta's users to feel able to leave without losing their circle. And it'll give the morons who insist that "OMG MASTODON IS TOO HARD YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE A SERVER!" (I can't be polite about these people any more, the number who brag about their own idiocy is astonishing) a "simple" social network they can join with that off-ramp available for the future.
But no, in my case, I didn't join Mastodon to get away from Meta. I joined so I have the network I want.
this sums up my viewpoint entirely