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Two spooky think tanks with their eye on controlling the fediverse (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by davel@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net
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The American “intelligence community” wants to control the narratives on federated social media, as they already do on corporate social media.

The whole “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” discourse was/is a psyop for top-down propaganda control. The Dem-aligned media did a bang-up job of discrediting Matt Taibbi such that his continued investigatory work into this intentionally opaque system is being ignored.

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[–] goose@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The full Atlantic Council Fediverse report is especially interesting (and only 12 pages). You can look at it a couple of different ways.

  • Replace all the mentions of Russia/China and disinformation with generic "bad actors" and you get a decent overview of the challenges Fediverse admins face
  • Look at the big "State Assessment" chart and its associated text for an overview of how corporations and states could seek to discredit (or worse) Fediverse instances

An instance like Hexbear with a stated ideology seems the most resilient to bad actors, imo. If you can just flat-out ban someone for being a wrecker, you're in a lot better shape than a general-public instance that has to come up with a bunch of general rules and exceptions and then try to figure out the letter+spirit of the rules on the fly

Also, Lemmy didn't even make the chart. Wamp waaaammmmmp

[–] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What other lemmy-like platforms are there? I came straight here from Reddit because the people championing it were quite convincing. Also... Is hexbear lemmy or is it more akin to kbin?

[–] goose@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

Hexbear is a Lemmy instance. As far as platforms, it's pretty much Lemmy and kbin to my knowledge.

[–] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mastodon is federated Twitter. Peertube is federated Youtube. Pixelfed is federated Instagram. Lemmy is federated Reddit. There are dozens of others. Most of them can talk to each other most of the time.

[–] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I was leaning more towards reddit-like platforms such as Lemmy but I wasn't very clear about it in my comment