I still have a #Threads and #Instagram account for oslo.town and sometimes log in to see if I can lure people away and over to #Mastodon. 🥷
Some people I follow from Instagram, seem to have enabled the option to "Also share on..." Threads. 🤔
I saw this because they're sharing their personal photos of their kids and holidays and stuff on Insta and it cross-posts to Threads, publicly. 😵💫
I wonder if they know...
@matt@oslo.town I find this to be the biggest difference between the Fediverse and the world of commercial social media: people using Big Tech platforms don’t think twice about sharing personal photos… especially of small children (who couldn’t give their consent).
I love it that in my 2 1/2 years on the Fediverse I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen the photo of a small child shared by a parent…
Consent and privacy are BIG here ❤
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I think there might be another more important reason for that difference. It could be about who you are connected to.
I have a Facebook profile and almost everyone I am connected to with that is somebody I have met in real life. And everyone I am connected to is somebody I at least know the identity of.
On Fediverse I have many followers who I have no idea who are. And even among the people I communicate with the most, there are very few where I know who they are. Also my Fediverse profile is set up to let anyone follow it, and my posts are public by default.
So even though I have more trust in Fediverse as a platform than I do in Facebook, I would still be sharing more personal information on Facebook than I do on Fediverse. And that’s entirely because of the set of people I am connected with.
I do want at some point to set up a self-hosted server and invite most of my Facebook contacts to create an account there. But I am not sure that Mastodon could be configured to achieve the kind of sharing model that mimics Facebook.
Matt
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