Three months ago I posted about the Atlantic Council’s interest in the controlling the fediverse: https://lemmy.ml/post/6641106

I think these projects are the continuation of the successful American “intelligence community” censorship of corporate social media platforms. They even tried to formalize the system two years ago as the Disinformation Governance Board.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOP
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    10 months ago

    The ones that don’t choose to may eventually find themselves defederated from the ones that do. We’ll get walled off from the large instances that “play ball”.

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      10 months ago

      uh huh. k. cool story. let me know if you ever get anything to actually back up that claim.

      let me rephrase… your conjecture is unfounded, and hyperbolic.

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      10 months ago

      Good. It’s better to have more instances, than larger instances (see: Reddit, Threads).