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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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List of Instances pledging to block Meta Instances (fedidb.org)

submitted 1 year ago by EnjoiNakMuay@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meta met privately with stux (runs mstdn.social) and supposedly discussed starting a new federated platform. People are planning to defederate because this gives Meta free reign to inject ads through federation, and are angry that admins/mods are meeting privately with a for profit corporation make decisions within what is an open source community with open source software