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  • I’m in favor of federation. The point of federated networks isn’t that there are no evil corporations, but rather that they can’t cause damage.

    What Facebook can do:

    • read your public data (they can do this wether anyone federates with them or not)
    • let their users publish content to other Fediverse users

    What they can’t do:

    • serve you ads
    • serve you an algorithmic feed
    • impose their ToS or rules
    • collect data for analytics/tracking/marketing
    • force you to use a certain client
    • make changes to the protocol or design

    I think this is mostly relevant for Mastodon servers due to the format of the content, but the arguments are the same.