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Gaaaaaaay transfemme STEM kid; engineer by trade, scientist by training. Molecular dynamics, AI, supercomputing. Former engineer @ MSFT; highly critical of their bullshit. Formerly astatide@tech.lgbt

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Anyone over the age of 30 who has spend any time in tech-adjacent spaces still cheering for #BigTech "joining" the #Fediverse is fucking deluding themselves. We've been through so many cycles of this shit over the past twenty years, how some people can still trust #facebook to do anything remotely ethical is beyond me.

They're not here to join, they're here to destroy. This is just the most cost-effective, PR-friendly way of doing it.

astatide,
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@Natanox @veirling @peter_sc awww. Didn’t know about pixelfed. Time to get to blocking -_-

like… I kind of felt like pixelfed was supposed to be an alternative to Instagram. Doesn’t make a lot of sense to just federate with Insta’s owner but hey.

astatide,
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@Natanox @veirling @peter_sc @dansup I look forward to the shocking articles coming out in 3 to 5 years about how Meta mis-used all the data it's harvested from the fediverse.

astatide,
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@Natanox @veirling @peter_sc @dansup Zuck, at a conference table: "can we do a genocide with activitypub? Is that a thing we can do? Scrap the legs project, do a deep dive."

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@Natanox @veirling @peter_sc @dansup Eugen going full on Meta apologist was no surprise after hearing stories about how instead of merging PRs from women and minorities, he'd instead rewrite them himself and merge his own versions so he's pretty obviously a massive fuck.wad but I really did sort of expect the guy who made "not Instagram!" to do a little better. Well, what're you gonna do. It's not like Meta has constantly and repeatedly acted predictably like a sociopath or anything.

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