For their use case it makes sense.
They want heightened privacy features like making likes and follows private, which is something that is incompatible with the current state of activitypub.
People probably should be more aware that what happens on here is mostly public and also why that’s a better alternative to only giving data to private networks run by companies with trade secrets.
Giving data out to everyone prevents an outsized amount of leverage being given to single companies. Facebook doesn’t have anywhere near as much kingmaking power if the same methods can be used by competitors or exposed and mitigated for outright.
Being open source, you also can know exactly what the fediverse is collecting and it’s currently a fuck load less than the massive data stream companies like Facebook record.
I don’t really feel I need protecting from the Fediverse, more from the “regular” social networks
Right!?! I’m ok with anarchy, and a non-commercial, non-corporate social media. Not in any need of being protected, whatsoever.
Well, we are an evil and creepy lot, aren’t we?
This will always be Morticia and Gomez Addams in my head.
Is it not?
There’s been multiple actors in the parts over the years but these two were perfect I think.
@Blaze@feddit.nl they even made a cute little graphic including some niche softwares, so cute
Definitely the biggest threats around
@Blaze@feddit.nl oh I see
Basically they see the Fediverse as a data breach with no actual control over what happen to data the moment it gets to other servers (actually true) and especially if GAFAM gets involved. I mean, I get this they want to stay super-private. But I think that private social networks is a bit naive as an ideaIf google actually integrates yt to the fediverse it might genuinely be the best thing they ever did, I genuinely hope they do cuz it’s the one centralised social media I actively use and the only google service I use in general.
Plus it goes without saying it objectively has the largest amount of high quality content regularly posted by thousands of people.
It could be the thing that would let a lot of users fully degoogle/decouple from google’s monopoly and bring a LOT more eyes onto the fediverse as a whole.
I kind of see where they come from too, but the way they present it just seems strange
