Post #2296651

@trekman10@union.place @simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org @joshbressers@infosec.exchange Perhaps, but you're underestimating what can be done within the standards of ActivityPub without the constraints of a specific implementation like Mastodon. I already know of at least a couple ways they could justify (or even try to hide) pushing ads to other instances. When you own the whole instance, evading anything short of a site-wide block would be easy. Disguising ads as posts wouldn't be hard either. Hiding those ads from people you don't want to see them, even the user that you sent the ad from, wouldn't be terribly difficult. I know it all sounds like doomsaying and "what ifs" but at this point I'm not willing to give any Big Social company the benefit of the doubt. They've repeatedly and consistently shown a willingness to screw over their users to benefit shareholders, and when they federate with the wider Fediverse, we all become their users, whether we like it or not.