• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, but in federated social media you can just pack up and set up a new instance.

    You won’t ever need to leave the whole thing behind to disconnect from corporate BS.

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      My concerns the product advertisers attempting to sneak in, bragging or something. It felt rampant on Reddit, so it’s probably left me wary. 😣

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        1 year ago

        And if that happens, you can bet your ass there will one day be instance-wide ad-block that auto-blocks users/instances known for posting ads.

        If that becomes a thing, there will be instances that explicitly filter it out.

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        Double edge sword. “This guy is shilling” reports go rampant .

        Hopefully, the Reddit bot trackers peeps will move to lemmy, and lend us their wisdom.
        I learnt so many ways realise a poster or commenter was a bit from those peeps. Amazing MVPs!
        And folks like kitboga taught me that spammers/scammers generally stick to a script.

        It’s gonna be an arms race! Hopefully we win!

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        Yo I also worry about advertisers attempting to target me with localised advertisements, which is why I use Borg VPN! Nice try, advertisers, but those “hot milfs” are nowhere near me, ha!

        /parody

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      That’s why I started my own instance, I got the freedom to pick and choose what instances I allow, so if any corporation decides to join the fediverse I don’t have to wait for the admin to defedederate.

      Just make sure if you’re using it as a personal instance to make it so no one but the admin can make communities and restrict your sign ups so your instance can’t get taken over by nutjobs.

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        1 year ago

        Interesting! Is there a risk of ballooning costs from legitimate bandwidth costs? Do you set some arbitrary limits on how much traffic you’ll support before you turn off the tap?

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      Yeah I could see myself eventually joining a splinter of the fediverse that is even more rabidly anti-corporate than we are right now. Like constantly blocking shills and instances that refuse to do their own aggressive pruning.