DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon

Re:DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon by dictum on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:52AM (#16638471)

There's some irony in the fact that the ongoing scandal is about Facebook partially relinquishing control of information to a third-party (in fact, all third parties), and that the implied remedy was for Facebook to keep total control of information to itself.

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Re:DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon by atomi on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:41PM (#16639814)

A friend and I in highschool discussed the possibility of governments archiving and recording telephone calls and then using that data to figure out what people's political leanings were to tailor a manchurian candidate. This was years before social media.

Now people gladly give up their data for fame/notoriety.

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Re:DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon by alex_duf on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:00PM (#16639288)

Yeah I agree I noticed that myself.

Any other social media can be abused in roughly the same way. Twitter has its bot problems, and I'm sure given enough popularity mastodon will face the same issues too.

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