Afaik, whenever an Activitypub instance has defederated from another it has always had to do with some combination of bad user behavior, poor moderation, and/or spam. Are the various instance admins who have decided to preemptively block threads.net simply convinced that these traits will be inevitable with it? Is it more of a symbolic move, because we all hate Meta? Or is the idea to just maintain a barrier (albeit a porous one) between us and the part of the Internet inhabited by our chuddy relatives?

(For my part, I’m working on setting up my own Lemmy and/or Pixelfed instance(s) and I do not currently intend to defederate.)

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    but not my IP, dwell time, what I voted for and how, what I read or didn’t, who I’ve blocked, the communities I follow, where I came from, what else I am doing, where I went next, fingerprinting my connection, my device sensors, and especially the way I react to suggested content and echo chamber manipulation.

    You’re under the mistaken impression that lemmy.world actually gives a shit about your privacy. They don’t. One day, they will do the same thing to you that Facebook does to its users. And disconnecting from lemmy.world and signing up to another instance won’t change the data they already have.

    Don’t trust Facebook. Don’t trust any of the corpos. Don’t trust Lemmy, Mastadon, KBin servers you log into. If you want privacy, keep that shit to yourself, in your own home, under lock and key.

    • j4k3@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Drop the tin foil dude, and go touch grass. I’ve been around since this thing was tiny. Lemmy isn’t even relevant in what you just ranted. Ruud seems like a good guy to me. He hosts this. It is hosted on a cloud server. I’m sure that service is probably collecting data, just like others are doing on several layers of the internet. This place just makes it a good bit harder and more aggregated. Everyone is not out to get you. Like Ruud hosts a bunch of federated servers. His ability to scale as this place grew is impressive. The guy is a mod in the Self Hosted community and as best I can tell, his priorities align well with my own. Maybe they don’t align with yours. I’m okay with that. My priorities don’t align with reddit, that is why I came here. Maybe there is a better place. I hope you find your place. Please don’t troll me with poorly informed ranting and paranoia.