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Just saw this scrolling through Facebook. I don't know anything about the matter, but my point remains valid: using other people's platforms does not and never will guarantee the safety of your data.

@_elena 's video is extremely relevant: https://tube.bsd.cafe/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN

#OwnYourData

@stefano @_elena

They say this like they are surprised. I’m always mystified why people use Facebook or exclusively create content for YouTube. It’s like they don’t understand they can yank it. They can control it. They can delete it at any point, and you have no recourse at all.

@kbsez @_elena unfortunately, many people underestimate this

@stefano @kbsez @_elena I think there is no perfect solution for this. Even in Fediverse an admin can decide from one day to another to remove accounts or to completely stop the service. The only thing that prevents you from this is running your own instance.

@NebulaTide @kbsez @_elena sure. But at least you can do it, here.

@stefano @_elena

This iswhy Ileft facebook.I was writing there for 10 years. My thoughts about communism, climate threat windfarms, veganism, miracle meat, mass immigration, taxation and healthcare.

I never made threats. I used a politically correct language. I wrote up to 10 posts a day. I was very active. I set the posts so only a select tiny group of 800 people could see them.

My content was sometimes copied, and ended up in print.

Then one day 97% of my content got censored.

So I left.

@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe Not that this is news to me, but apparently 350K of GNU/Linux users are just really fucking stupid.

@stefano Meta did it well. If you are really a Linux user you cannot have a group in that shit called Facebook. They should have been thinking about it! Now they know. 😐

@stefano @_elena I was one of the members. Really regret it.

@RazvanNicolescu02 @_elena can you confirm it was a good group, well moderated, etc?

@stefano @_elena yes, excellent community, moderated, but not too much, incredibly informative and a good source of inspiration.

@stefano
Feel bad for them, but to add to your point: doing work like moderation for a group like this, and even joining and posting is doing unpaid work for Meta. @_elena

@stefano @_elena
THAT IS NOT MODERATION.
IT IS FASCISM.

@stefano @_elena I was just remembering how I trusted nyc.indymedia.org - I had some nice posts, and obits that got search listing matching NYT. Yes, and Nobel Prize winners. The took us down like bowling pins.
I am glad to hear what you are saying, because I've been eager to build it from scratch.
I wasted time asking people who were supposedly doing this, they were probably FBI and it has been years.
I am going to rebuild the IndyMedia network.
I want you to at least be a user.