• r3df0x ✡️✝☪️
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    38 months ago

    For the health of the internet you want people scattered across millions of websites

    I don’t understand this point. Federation brings everyone together. I don’t understand why it’s bad for everyone to spread out.

    Preventing congregation weakens the effectiveness of disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and protects against bullying

    This is a contradiction. This is an argument for having everyone decentralized rather then together in massive content silos.

    • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      This is an argument for having everyone decentralized rather then together in massive content silos.

      Yes, if everyone is together it is much easier for misinformation to spread

      If a Russian content farm was to try and get a message out would it be easier if they made one post seen by millions or thousands of posts seen by a few thousand people

      Even Lemmy mods know federation is a bad thing because their answer to preventing the above is defederating