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   Byron :computerfairies: (level2wizard@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 00:28:39 JST Byron :computerfairies:

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs Maybe I'm misreading the 'bridge' outrage here or misunderstanding in general; my issue with this is not 'control over my public posts' but rather 'I don't want to have to spend time filtering out posts/cross-posts from a platform I don't want to see'

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     Ben Lopatin (bennylope@social.benlopatin.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 00:30:43 JST Ben Lopatin

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I thought the whole point of spending time online was to feel bad?

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     faraiwe (faraiwe@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 00:35:32 JST faraiwe

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs acknowledged and... counterpoint.

     How is that different OR WORSE from any #DTBO socmedia, where they make no assurances or even real guarantees of privacy, and a douchebag techbro can shred your account at will?

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     pospi 🏳️‍⚧️ (pospi@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 07:33:51 JST pospi 🏳️‍⚧️

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs yes, and- we should still resist immoral replication & use of our data every way we can.

     Fundamentally it is a question of ease of access. If my posts live here on this little queer AF server and somebody has to create an account to scrape them in order to do some harmful predictive modeling of my political views, that is a much bigger barrier to fucking with me than if they automatically show up on Bluesky and get fed into a fascist-run LLM directly accessed by hate groups.

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     RaymondPierreL3 (raymondpierrel3@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 11:19:21 JST RaymondPierreL3

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs some of us are just trying to understand because we’re technically challenged… hence posts and discussions. Thank you to all of those working in the background for making the fediverse safe.

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     Dan Neuman (dan613@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 00:50:15 JST Dan Neuman

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Bridges like this are single points with significant impacts, though. So targeting them for unfair use of data, even if it is public, can be an effective use of personal energy. Repurposing your data in private is not an issue. But repurposing it *en masse* in public view makes it a target for criticism.