With the upcoming #meta#Project92 Fediverse service, there has been a, well, robust discussion of how to avoid threats looming. Those advocating mass-preemptive defederation make three cases for it.
➡️ To avoid data mining ...which Defederation does virtually zero to avoid any big tech entity scraping all the fedi public social graph today - Want proof?
see: https://is.gd/q8U2pv
The next argument is about poorly moderated P92 user posts and ad spam.
Which I'll discuss next.
@tchambers
On the "out-compete" remarks. It's silly to talk about competing with one of the richest corporations in the world. We don't need competition, we need cooperation. Philosophically speaking, valorizing competition as intrinsically good is what's driving this civilization off a cliff.
But practically to this issue, we would win by cooperating on a unified fediblock. Not only would it protect this network and its users, but it would visibly humiliate and defy an enormous and universally despised corporation. It takes guerilla tactics for the weaker combatant to win an asymmetrical war
@tchambers
Linux is thriving because it's a community which survives by cooperating. Linux doesn't really compete with the proprietary OSes in the markets they dominate. But this is all rather academic to my original point. Imagine what the effect of a unified fediblock would be to Meta. It would ruin their unveil. Wouldn't that be fun?
@ophiocephalic
If they did a big push to their 1.6 billion IG users (who knows if they will but they could) literally days later they would still be larger then the entire monthly active user base of the Fedi - even if we did a full preemptive block.
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