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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 15:08:11 UTC Aral Balkan

   If there is even a single gram of truth to this…

   Any instance that goes along with such a thing will be lost to surveillance capitalism. I don’t care how large they are or who they are, any instance that becomes Meta’s bitch should be defederated immediately by all others. Let the largest few get swallowed up whole by Silicon Valley if they’re dumb enough to do it. The rest of us will rebuild.

   I really hope no one is stupid enough to take Meta up on this if it’s true. https://beach.city/@vantablack/110594120842443355

   • 🌈Matii (matiiob@mastodon.uy)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 15:08:07 UTC 🌈Matii

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     • ar.al🌻

     @aral *Spanish translation*

     (Y quizá algunos de ustedes entiendan ahora por qué estoy diseñando la Small Web como una web entre iguales. Por qué garantizar que cada nodo -cada instancia- sea igual es esencial para cualquier sistema que quiera resistir la centralización y la captura corporativa. Por qué si estos lugares son extensiones de nosotros mismos, debemos poseerlos y controlarlos nosotros mismos. Es la diferencia entre ser una persona y no serlo en la era digital. Ya es hora de que lo entendamos).

     https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
     #SmallWeb #humanRights #personhood

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 15:08:08 UTC Aral Balkan

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     (And maybe some of you will now see why I’m designing the Small Web as a peer-to-peer web. Why ensuring that every node – every instance – is equal is essential to any system that wants to resist centralisation and corporate capture. Why if these places are extensions of ourselves, we must own and control them ourselves. It’s the difference between being a person and not a person in the digital age. It’s high time we understood this.)

     https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

     #SmallWeb #humanRights #personhood

     soloojos (Mastodon Uruguay) repeated this.
   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 15:08:09 UTC Aral Balkan

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     I’ve been shouting with my whole chest about the danger of large instances for as long as I can remember.

     Even if this rumour is not true today or even if the large instance admins decide to act intelligently and with backbone and refuse such an offer if it is true, the danger remains.

     You don’t have to wait for the ship to sink before taking action. If you’re on a huge instance, move to a smaller one. Spread yourselves thin. Make each instance a smaller target. Make the fediverse stronger.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 15:08:10 UTC Aral Balkan

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     I started on the Fediverse with Mastodon about seven years ago when I had ~42K followers on Twitter and zero here.

     Personally, I don’t care how many followers I lose. My tiny, ineffectual, instance of one will defederate with any instance, no matter how large, if this rumour is true.

     If this comes to pass, I’d urge those of you on the instances that become Meta’s lackeys to move to instances that are not if you’d like us to stay in touch.

     Remember, it’s about quality not quantity. Always.