CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@forgetpassword If I'm the only one using it...depends how much hassle it is to switch and how bad the thing I'm already using is. I feel like I'm already on those alternatives but I'm open to (but also skeptical of) more!

But if it's something I use to interact with others? Switching will probably never happen. Even if they're interested, even if they seem *excited* about an alternative...within a month they'll probably be back on the old thing. I might leave the community in order to leave the software, or I might leave the software when I leave the community. Although mostly in my past it's been the former.

@QasimRashid @bontchev They've been handing data to cops without much constraints for many years now so unfortunately most people who have one were already fine with that. That stuff has been in the national news periodically since early 2019. Amazon bought them in 2018. So pretty much if the device has Amazon branding you can be pretty confident that it was purchased after the whole thing was already known to be a poorly controlled government surveillance network.

@benroyce @taylorlorenz @dsc I think there's another side to the lack of centralized moderation too -- it removes a lot of the "too big to fail" mentality, and in doing so actually allows more moderation.

We've got Twitter over here producing and distributing CSAM, and so many people and institutions *still* won't block or remove links to Twitter purely because of its size.

So you do get more freedom here, but at the same time you get stronger and more fair regulation. Regulation designed for your community instead of for global politics. For example, I follow accounts that post pornography, which would never be allowed on corporate socials. Yet it's all hidden behind appropriate CWs and such. Meanwhile back before I left Facebook I was getting random unsolicited hardcore porn just popping up in my feed a couple times a week! They'd remove it eventually, but not before it popped up full screen while I'm standing in line at the grocery store or something...