Looks like we don't need laws after all for platforms to opportunistically suppress political user content: In 🇫🇷 #France, a #Snapchat #lobbyist admitted in a parliamentary hearing that the company was "proud" to have collaborated "hand in hand with the interior ministry" to make sure only user content critical of the mass protests was shown on #SnapMaps.

Source: https://www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-numerique/snapchat-admet-avoir-bidonne-la-snap-map-pendant-les-emeutes-n211617.html
#centralisation #contentmoderation #DigitalServicesAct #DSA

Beware of billionaires peddling “decentralisation”.

Anyone seeking a decentralised world would never allow themselves to do the things it takes to become (or remain) a billionaire. Billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations are the epitome of centralisation.

Decentralisation begins at decentring yourself.

#JackDorsey #BlueSky #billionaires #capitalism #twitter #fediverse #centralisation #decentralisation #corporateCapture #embraceExtendExtinguish #warning

Let me be negative for a bit:
more than 40% of the total users are on FIVE mastodon instances. In fact, more than 10% are on ONE instance.
That is NOT "decentralised", that is "centralised with minor exceptions".

(Can't say numbers since the-federation.info is ill today.)

#centralisation #mastodon #instance

#Centralisation originally came to #email due to very basic failures such as "whoops, I've deleted all the data of millions of my users and my little project isn't fun any more, where do I dump it?".
https://mamot.fr/@nemobis/109299518130284804

See also @vmbrasseur on #SuccessionPlanning.
https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/community_passing_the_batton_foss_leadership/

#FediMeta