The recent #Meta makeover shows once more who dictates the rules for proprietary platforms such as #Facebook. With #freesoftware and federated social media such as #Mastodon, you, the user, is in control.
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Free Software Foundation (fsf@hostux.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 04:01:26 JST Free Software Foundation -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:58:15 JST Yuchen Pei @fsf
Let's not conflate users of a piece of (server) free software with users having an account registered with a server instance. The former (operators / admins of a mastodon server) do have full control. The latter have control on the client side, but otherwise are at the whims of the former.
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