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The open source world and its volunteers need to migrate to decentralized services as quickly as possible.
Everything is now easier than before for the Big Data, it is very possible in the age of AI to match our habits even according to anonymous data.
The solution is to switch to decentralized / self-hosted systems as quickly as possible.
Linux sub’s admins may archive here and announce an official Lemmy sub. Hope all other open source subs will migrate too.
I’m ready to leave RedDEAD!
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1uit5tb/time_to_migrate_lemmy_yeah_its_silent_now_but/
I look forward to dozens of users joining us but being decentralized doesn’t protect us from being tracked.
This applies just as much to the fediverse as it does to corporate slop sites.
Tbf, it was possible years before AI to de-anonymize users from “anonymized” databases. AI just speeds the process up.
Yes, they can track anyone with their current resources, but their revenues are all tied to active users. If that drops significantly then they lose money they need to run the tracking programs. We gave them the popularity they needed to get to this point. We can take it away again if we want to.
We probably won’t, but we could.