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Best thread I've seen thus far on the issue of Meta joining the Fediverse (social.coop)

submitted 1 year ago by Fabriek to c/fediverse

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[–] WFH 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's meta. Their intentions are never honest.

[–] ttmrichter 4 points 1 year ago

The point you're missing is that it doesn't matter if their intentions are honest or not now because even if they are (that conditional is a seriously important word there!) there's no way to ensure they will remain that way.

There is no safe way to bring surveillance capitalism into a commons, no matter how pure the motive may or may not be at the moment.