TheDeadGuy@kbin.socialtoFediverse@kbin.social•Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ!
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1 year agoThe casual user is not the informed user
The casual user is not the informed user
Any conversation, be it political or commercial. All it takes is something sounding confident, a grain of truth and lots of upvotes to convince people.
That’s why I like seeing downvoted as a red flag people can pay attention to
“But at the very least, if a server goes down, it should not be catastrophic to you.” Your social world shouldn’t live inside an app, she says, or depend on a company staying solvent. It should, and could, be much bigger than that.
Exactly
Bots can get in here though, I’m afraid of them overwhelming the site before the user base has grown. Bots are part of the internet now, security in obscurity doesn’t work
Big companies are driven by profit and power. I don’t expect us to keep them out but it would be nice to prevent them from becoming the default, or else we’ll just repeat the same thing over again
Multiple smaller communities connected together is the best strategy for a free internet IMO