Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform::The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said

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    9 months ago

    Because bluesky and threads started with corporate interests and Mastodon has serious privacy concerns due to the amount of data that instance owners have access to.

    Don’t Bluesky and Threads have similar serious privacy concerns? Those running them would, I think, have similar if not even more access to people’s information, depending on how much their respective apps request. Mastodon and its apps on the other hand, generally don’t request as much access to one’s information, meaning instance owners arguably have much less to snoop through.

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      9 months ago

      It’s always weird to me when a social media app tries to brag about “privacy”. You know once you post something publicly, it’s out there forever, right? And if you want private, direct messaging, there are apps for that. (And they integrate with Lemmy/Mastodon a hell of a lot better than proprietary apps.)

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      I’d argue, oddly, that it’s easier to hold a single corporate entity accountable for data breaches than mastodon instance owners.

      It’s likely the case that both of are bad from a data security point of view, but at least with the corporations you know who to shout at.

      ** edit just realised that mastodon may not work in the exact same way as Lemmy when it comes to instance owners, I’d have to look that up.

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        First, I agree with what you’re saying here about the privacy issue.

        The other side of that is that companies or even individual journalists could just spin up their own instance and not allow outsiders to sign up.

        However, there needs to be a critical mass of engaged people. I don’t know what Mastodon’s engagement looks like but I can’t imagine it’s very high. With even the slightest barrier to entry beyond “sign up with your email address on our main site” there will never be as much engagement as a simpler platform. On top of that, a lot of news outlets consider hot takes on the social media site formerly known as Twitter to be news. So they embed dumb opinions from there in loads of “articles”.

        It’s going to be a long road for them to leave and when they do it likely won’t be to join the Fediverse.