companies are capable of operating under different rules in different jurisdictions, they do it all the time. just look at how they handle data in EU due to GDPR vs how they do it everywhere else. I don’t see why this case would be much different.

ok but I’m not in the EU nor is my instance so that doesn’t really apply to me.

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yeah, I see them being posted into their DB (and therefore federated as) a post as if they are a user. they can earmark that post as an ad and properly present it as such in their own platform but anyone federated would see the post as-is.

they could either obfuscate how they mark it as an ad or just not provide that information at all to federating instances.

then I can totally see them claiming they don’t control other instances and can’t be responsible for whether or not the federated ads are presented as such.

they technically could do this by representing ads with posts.

my preference is Xitter (pronounced shitter)

not that i don’t think you could ask about them here, but there are a number of self host communities that you should check out, here are two of the bigger ones:

!selfhosted@lemmy.world !selfhost@lemmy.ml

i learned about GNU Taler the other day from one of the OS communities

the problem occurs when most of the content comes from Meta (they will likely have the vast majority of Fediverse users). especially if major communities exist on their instance. when meta decides to no longer support fedi integration, those in the fedi are forced to decide between staying with their communities by ditching the fedi and moving to threads or having many of their communities ripped away.

meta will do this at some point as a play to draw users to them, but we can decide if we want to be affected when that comes to pass.

Facebook could just create fake users that post ads as content

ah ok makes sense. maybe after curling you can delete the debuggers/infinite loops in the scripts and then load all that locally into the browser for the tools? will just need to change the script sources go be your local copies

would it help to curl down the source html and scripts? I’m no professional at dealing with malicious code, but i would definitely recommend doing it inside a clean VM or docker container or something

they may be able to read certain data from another instance but their current platform allows complete surveillance of what you looked at, how long, every click and scroll, etc while also being able to feed that in to manipulating what you see.

imo it will be basically impossible to have that kind of impact on people from instances not controlled by them, particularly if the other instance defederates so they don’t see meta instance content.