Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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    1 year ago

    It is legal. It’s all public info, anyone can scrape it.

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      1 year ago

      So why you are telling me then is we should abolish Facebook and get some real privacy laws, and leave the internet.

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        1 year ago

        The new internet will be in the woods in the middle of nowhere dancing naked on mushrooms! It’s the only place corporations won’t follow