cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43738745
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43738698
I made a post over on Upscrolled recommending people check out the Fediverse:
https://share.upscrolled.com/en/post/6890f5f0-159f-11f1-8080-80006ddcdcfc/
It was kind of a random thought, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense.
Upscrolled is a newer, strongly pro-Palestine/Leftist platform, and a lot of the users there already care about decentralization, censorship resistance, and not relying on big corporate platforms.
That feels very aligned with what the Fediverse is about.
Since it’s still growing, I’d imagine a lot of users there might be open to trying alternatives like Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, Loops, etc.
Especially if it’s framed less as “leave your platform” and more as “here’s a broader network you can also be part of.”
I was also curious if anyone else here was interested in recommending the Fediverse over there, as well.
Not in a spammy way, obviously — just sharing info and letting people know there are decentralized options that line up with their values.
Curious what others think.
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It’s actually easier to mine data over on the fediverse.
- which post made your demographic stay longer on the site?
- which post made you search for what things
- which post could be tied to your purchase of a thing?
- which post made you notice the ads displayed on it?
- which posts did you read?
- which demographics have seen that post?
- which post’s link did you actually open?
AFAIK this kind of mining is not possible and is not even wanted by those who code fediverse platforms
Comments, boosts and timestamps of those can build a profile of the user. And the profile can draw the identity of the user.
Yes, but its far harder to associate the identity with others, meaning it doesnt really accomplish much for them. They can’t target ads at a user based on their mastodon account unless they associate it with the users advertising IDs on other sites.
They’d just need to find what links the multiple “you” though, like how iirc Facebook would use phone contacts to make a map of who’s who.
Yes, but they dont have access to anything that could do that unless you give it to them. When you use Facebook directly in can do loads of fingerprinting. This cannot be done on the Fediverse unless the actual instance youre using is doing it.
IMO that is still magnitudes less info than what they’re pulling in right now
Very vaguely, especially in comparison to the profiling that the marketing platforms are doing currently
Copypasta of my comment to someone else:
They’d just need to find what links the multiple “you” though, like how iirc Facebook would use phone contacts to make a map of who’s who.
Forgot to mention something:
Perhaps indeed not wanted by coders, but anyone can leverage the already existing code.
But in such case we’re discussing a rouge instance, not whole system
And instances that do that sort of scraping tend to get defederated pretty quickly. Hell, even just building a search index of people’s posts gets you rightfully torched-and-pitchforked out the door (at least over on Mastodon; it’s probably a bit more culturally accepted over here in fedireddit land).
