@Natanox @CartyBoston

Yeah, kind of difficult to see how Meta can be classed as "behaving" when they have been cited as factor in multiple different real world massacres:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

etc etc etc.

Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide

Victims in US and UK legal action accuse social media firm of failing to prevent incitement of violence

^{Dan Milmo (The Guardian)}

@Natanox @FediThing

You want to talk about companies, I get it. I am talking about people.

@CartyBoston @Natanox

Companies that own an instance decide how that instance is run. We need to block instances that are run dangerously by amoral companies.

People can move to different instances that are run responsibly, that's the idea of the Fediverse.

@FediThing @CartyBoston Indeed.

It's a moral problem that's extensively exploited these days. "Platforms" use both the lock-in effects as well as marketing and propaganda tactics to make people feel bad for not wanting to interact with the platform, shifting the focus on the loss of social interaction. Simultaneously the blame is also shifted, from the crappy dicks who run the platform to the individual who DARES to avoid the platform - which is reinterpreted as being anti-social.

@FediThing @CartyBoston The only solution to this is exactly what the Fedi does. Which is why Threads does NOT nor plans to ever allow moving accounts off of it.

It's here to exploit social behaviour, like Meta always does.

@Natanox

It's why we need to avoid having large instances, power concentrating in one place is root of centralisation.

Yup, I opened an issue about this when it happened:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/1023

I can see the argument for just suggesting one instance for people who don't want to do any choosing, but there's no reason that this has to be the biggest instance or even the same instance all the time.

There are so many other instances apart from m.s which have just as good a track record or better. A pool of those could be used, rotating randomly every so often.

That's what the Nextcloud website does when suggesting hosting companies, has a pool of good ones and randomly suggests one.

[BUG] App onboarding is directing new users to join mastodon.social by default · Issue #1023 · mastodon/mastodon-ios

Is there an existing issue for this? I have searched the existing issues Current Behavior With the current setup, the app strongly implies users should just join mastodon.social, with a harder-to-r...

^GitHub