Gregory's ServerAlthough it's not entirely clear, but you appear to be encouraging folks to migrate to the deprecated, legacy, privacy mining monolithic silos... Yet you reside in the DeSoc space of the Fediverse @ianbetteridge ;)
I'm certainly elated that you are homed on a Fediverse instance, where we encourage the uninformed and frustrated, subjugated chattel lamenting in the deprecated legacy silo space to liberate themselves; taking back ownership of their personal data and privacy by migrating to DeSoc space solutions such as the Fediverse; (namely, in your particular case, A Mastodon instance).
I entreat you to adopt, and encourage you to affect, a couple of concepts that will aid our fellow common, average folk in migrating to safer and more free mediums in their social networking activities.
We can do this by observing the following functional principles:
1. Avoid posting links into the deprecated legacy space whenever possible - this presents a problem whereby the user is unduly exposed and subjected to unsafe, invasive, and involuntary tracking and fingerprinting operations performed on these (often unsuspecting) users by the very legacy silos that in most cases, form the impetus for users to migrate their accounts to the Fediverse in the first place.
Remember, most people came to the Fediverse and other networks in the DeSoc space to get away from unsafe and privacy disrespecting data mining operations like #Faceplant, #Twatter, and #InstaSPAM. Posting direct, unsanitized links to places like that amounts to invitations to return to that kind of subjugated online participation.
2. So please encourage your favorite content creators to also post content natively in the Fediverse and other DeSoc spaces, by creating accounts on Fediverse instances, thereby allowing even more people to follow and engage with them in a safe environment.
Also, once they are indeed settled in, show them how to affect methods (either manually or via existing bridging social tools) whereby their posts in the centralized, deprecated legacy space provide links leading to the content in the Fediverse, which in turn often provide references to their own websites, instead of the other way around. The philosophy that has made the Fediverse so popular is by encouraging other to come here and engage others with content created here - not by encouraging people to go back to the places that created the reasons they came to the Fediverse in the first place 🙂
3. There are more than a few Fediverse instances that enforce rules where user accounts are actually suspended or terminated for posting unsafe, unsanitized, direct links to those legacy silo systems. When you feel that you absolutely must post links referencing content that only exists in that privacy disrespecting, unsafe dats mining silo, please consider using privacy tools to convert those references into "sanitized links". Here's is a list of several that you can use, and encourage others to as well:
pussthecat.org/#services
For example, #Bibliogram for sanitizing InstaSPAM links; #Invidious for sanitizing #YouTube links; #Nitter for sanitizing Twatter links; and #Teddit for sanitizing #Reddit links, etc.
4. Although already mentioned, you too can do more to advance the adoption of the social network that your yourself have fortunately embraced. Your advocacy is encouraged and offers a very powerful voice to others that may themselves be searching for a safer environment, away from the subjugation that the deprecated, legacy privacy mining silos inflict upon all of their users, and even casual visitors.
5. Finally, there are several tools that actually automate this process of converting links in the deprecated legacy into safe, sanitized links.
On #Android for example, two such apps that provide excellent seamless protection are #Fedilab, and #UntrackMe - both of which are available at F-Droid.
I hope that helps, and I look forward to any questions or inquiries you may have.
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I'm certainly elated that you are homed on a Fediverse instance, where we encourage the uninformed and frustrated, subjugated chattel lamenting in the deprecated legacy silo space to liberate themselves; taking back ownership of their personal data and privacy by migrating to DeSoc space solutions such as the Fediverse; (namely, in your particular case, A Mastodon instance).
I entreat you to adopt, and encourage you to affect, a couple of concepts that will aid our fellow common, average folk in migrating to safer and more free mediums in their social networking activities.
We can do this by observing the following functional principles:
1. Avoid posting links into the deprecated legacy space whenever possible - this presents a problem whereby the user is unduly exposed and subjected to unsafe, invasive, and involuntary tracking and fingerprinting operations performed on these (often unsuspecting) users by the very legacy silos that in most cases, form the impetus for users to migrate their accounts to the Fediverse in the first place.
Remember, most people came to the Fediverse and other networks in the DeSoc space to get away from unsafe and privacy disrespecting data mining operations like #Faceplant, #Twatter, and #InstaSPAM. Posting direct, unsanitized links to places like that amounts to invitations to return to that kind of subjugated online participation.
2. So please encourage your favorite content creators to also post content natively in the Fediverse and other DeSoc spaces, by creating accounts on Fediverse instances, thereby allowing even more people to follow and engage with them in a safe environment.
Also, once they are indeed settled in, show them how to affect methods (either manually or via existing bridging social tools) whereby their posts in the centralized, deprecated legacy space provide links leading to the content in the Fediverse, which in turn often provide references to their own websites, instead of the other way around. The philosophy that has made the Fediverse so popular is by encouraging other to come here and engage others with content created here - not by encouraging people to go back to the places that created the reasons they came to the Fediverse in the first place 🙂
3. There are more than a few Fediverse instances that enforce rules where user accounts are actually suspended or terminated for posting unsafe, unsanitized, direct links to those legacy silo systems. When you feel that you absolutely must post links referencing content that only exists in that privacy disrespecting, unsafe dats mining silo, please consider using privacy tools to convert those references into "sanitized links". Here's is a list of several that you can use, and encourage others to as well:
pussthecat.org/#services
For example, #Bibliogram for sanitizing InstaSPAM links; #Invidious for sanitizing #YouTube links; #Nitter for sanitizing Twatter links; and #Teddit for sanitizing #Reddit links, etc.
4. Although already mentioned, you too can do more to advance the adoption of the social network that your yourself have fortunately embraced. Your advocacy is encouraged and offers a very powerful voice to others that may themselves be searching for a safer environment, away from the subjugation that the deprecated, legacy privacy mining silos inflict upon all of their users, and even casual visitors.
5. Finally, there are several tools that actually automate this process of converting links in the deprecated legacy into safe, sanitized links.
On #Android for example, two such apps that provide excellent seamless protection are #Fedilab, and #UntrackMe - both of which are available at F-Droid.
I hope that helps, and I look forward to any questions or inquiries you may have.
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