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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 19:57:22 UTC Electronic Frontier Foundation

   Corporate social media locks you in to their platforms, but projects like the Fediverse put you in control to build a more free, more private, and better moderated web. It's exciting to see more people working to make independent social media even better.
   https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/24/as-the-open-social-web-movement-grows-a-new-nonprofit-launches-to-expand-the-fediverse/
   #fediverse #activitypub

   • Brian Dear (brianstorms@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 20:08:35 UTC Brian Dear

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     @eff

     But *is* it “even better”?

     In the 2010s on social media we saw the rise of cancel culture, where people were made pariahs for somethingorother, whether or not it was fair or even true.

     In the 2020s with the growth of new social networking platforms, the new thing is cancelling *functionality* rather than people. By far (imho) the biggest cancellation is #Mastodon’s #search capability, rendering the very idea of finding content largely moot. Like pre-crime: it’s pre-censorship.

   • Dźwiedziu (dzwiedziu@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 20:10:49 UTC Dźwiedziu

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff You write that like you don't know what corporations have created this EEE as a Foundation.