Post #2296643
2023-06-21 11:27 UTC
@trekman10@union.place @simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org @joshbressers@infosec.exchange Defederating doesn't prevent Meta from reading data, however federation does open up additional avenues for Meta to violate privacy and online safety beyond just reading our data. Serving targeted ads to people who don't even use their website, for example. Enabling stalking and harassment and all the other nasty behaviors that instance moderators try to prevent, because let's face it: we already know their moderation will be inadequate. And so on.
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@trekman10@union.place 2023-06-21 18:53
@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.