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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 06:28:54 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   Like, do the math right? These folks have repeatedly indicated that they're going to comply with fascist laws. They're already fucking with anything that looks like adult contact; what happens when the US passes KOSA and just being LGBTQ is adult content? They've already provided DMs for convictions to anti-abortion states. So when the nazis win, and just being trans and antifascist and an anarchist is all illegal; where does that leave me? Exposed to a degree that genuinely puts me in danger.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 06:29:02 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     This really isn't *about* just "not seeing" content I don't like; and yet the tools at my disposal as a user are focused entirely on that, as if that's the only possible issue here. The reality is I don't want big tech companies aligned with fascism or willing to cooperate with fascist states, including the US, to know I exist because well, fascists want me perished. Fedi was good for that at one point, but now it does not appear to be good for that anymore...

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 06:35:46 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     I know that you gotta do what you gotta do to protect yourself, but ever though about the idea of a self-hosted instance attached directly to your website where you can completely detach and defederate from any site fedded with Threads or Bluesky or any other app associated with corporate fascists scraping your data?

     That's the system I run with through redgarterclub.com, and it works wonders. I've completely blocked Threads from my instance, yet it still works fine.

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     Ted (blues_guitar@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 06:35:56 JST Ted

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites People act like it's being snobby or elitist, but a blog, especially a self-hosted one, allows so much more agency than using one of the big social networks that might take a fascist turn at any given moment.

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 06:39:46 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites

     I run mine through my Masto.host server. The only drawbacks are that the UI limits me to 500 character inputs, and I don't get the full editing features that other apps have. But, for $19/month, it serves my needs adequately.

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     Puppethead (puppethead@ieji.de)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 06:40:54 JST Puppethead

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     @AnthonyJK @AnarchoNinaWrites The problem is Zuck and his ilk have no qualms about scraping the internet, so if it's available to see it's going into their machinery no matter what. And the "big data" mining operations put the pieces together to know too much about everyone everywhere. So even doing a personal blog isn't as safe as one would hope.

     The twist added by the fediverse is one loses control over how content is disseminated, but I don't think it's too far from scraped blog pages.

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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 06:57:38 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     @puppethead @AnthonyJK @AnarchoNinaWrites

     If Meta isn’t already web scraping, I’d be surprised.

     Federation isn’t necessary for that.

     Blocking the Threads instance doesn’t necessarily stop public web scrapers.