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Mastodon's Privacy: Who actually holds your data in Mastodon

I'm really excited about the potential of using Friendica to replace facebook, but atm there's an issue with friendica.world federating with other activitypub instances and I can't start trying to bring people across to here if or if they can't interact with other people in the fediverse (or […]

This 100%. It's time for governments to take a role in promoting and supporting decentralised properly portable social media accounts (at the moment than means atproto over activitypub but honestly either is better than nothing). Funding for non-profits to achieve this

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The irony of banning China for using it's carmakers to spy on drivers, when US carmakers spy on drivers.

Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer's cars. GM sharing driver behaviour without explicit consent with insurers resulting in hikes in insurance premiums for some […]

This is what anti-woke means. From Salon: Facebook users still cannot say "white people have mental illness," but they can say "gay people have mental illness."

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Getting timeouts, performance issues etc on alternative social media right now. Last night's extremely slow Bluesky, Friendica (closest facebook alternative available) time outs and federation issues, etc. I'm wondering if this means there is a substantial exodus from FB over Zuck's new policies.

In order to not fall afoul of the First Amendment, the USG must prove that the Chinese gov is manipulating what Americans see on Tiktok and accessing American's data. There's no evidence of either. And China can buy the data on the open market anyway.

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