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Various challenges that Meta/Threads may face, according to Facebook's ex-Chief Security Officer (cybervillains.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some insights from Alex Stamos that I found quite interesting.

TL:DR;

He predicts the challenges will be as follows:

Content Moderation: Enforcing actor and behavior-based content moderation will be difficult in the federated environment. The lack of metadata available in Federation makes it harder to stop spammers, troll farms, and abusers.
Privacy Obligations: With Threads content being pulled down and cached by other servers, it becomes challenging to comply with right-to-data-deletion requirements, such as those imposed by GDPR. The Fediverse lacks mechanisms to enforce content deletion.
Competing with Other Platforms: Meta may face difficulties in competing and reaching feature-parity with platforms like TikTok and Twitter while being bound by the feature set of ActivityPub.

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Great article. I especially liked the conclusion paragraph:

Fediverse can only win by keeping its ground, by speaking about freedom, morals, ethics, values. By starting open, non-commercial and non-spied discussions. By acknowledging that the goal is not to win. Not to embrace. The goal is to stay a tool. A tool dedicated to offer a place of freedom for connected human beings. Something that no commercial entity will ever offer.