@tchambers @upstreamism @activitypubblueskybridge
So WHY is #BlueSky building its #AT protocol around #bigdata collection? I see big data as antithetical to #fediverse. I’m here on #Mastodon expressly to be out of the firing range of the big data obsession. My entire Internet device ecology at home is designed to foil data tracking. Why would I stay on the fediverse if I knew it was feeding into some megalomaniac’s big data obsession?
I think it’s really important to reply to comments like this to raise awareness that #Fediverse is absolutely not outside the reach of #bigdata collection.
In fact, given how the core protocol is set up with few privacy controls, it arguably makes #Mastodon content even more likely to be vacuumed up by big data.
People need to realize that they have only limited control over their content here. Anything they put in is effectively broadcast to the world, no matter privacy settings, and if you’re worried about big data, well, big data operators are happy to vacuum that up.
@Brownian_motion @volkris @tchambers @upstreamism @activitypubblueskybridge
Sorry, I was busy IRL for a few days, but I’d like to reply by saying I wish you would refrain from being insulting here on Mastodon. I don’t need a tin foil hat, thanks. Discussions here are freewheeling, but I don’t welcome strident proclamations.
@volkris @Pattyagray @tchambers @upstreamism @activitypubblueskybridge https://qoto.org/@volkris/110324073813028931 People really need to get a tinfoil hat. Anything we put online (and ALL of the metadata) IS GOING to be recorded and analyzed by someone, for some purpose, and USED BY THEM when, where, and how THEY want to present it.