I came here for the same reasons as most of you and chiefly among them was to escape the corporate embrace of common social media platforms.
But how much trust can we place into Lemmy, Mastodon, and/or other various integrated Fediverse platform instances?
I’m all for open-source and transparency which the devs seem to provide, although providing source code and routinely audited source code are entirely different concepts.
Similarly, the high availability of source code may lead to malicious instances, actors, and/or back-end modifications that would favor specific instances resounding consequence throughout the Fediverse.
So I ask simply: How much faith do you have? (Please provide supporting documentation links supporting your answer because I’m genuinely interested.)
EDIT: I literally removed a semi-colon character ‘:’
Availability of source code and actual auditing are entirely different.
They very well can as a private platform. For the record, google does favor specific vendors through their Google Partnership program and similarly through search results as recently found through court proceedings.
It’s also managed by a single source of truth, ie. databases… correct?
I’m not worried about anything. I asked a question to a forum which seemed to superficially accommodate questions, my bad.
I literally don’t care about moderated content, censorship, or whatever.
Nope.
Yes, I’m lower than you. Teach me.
Counter question, how many straws are you grasping at here?
Realize how many questions you levied and that I was actually kind enough to take the time to answer most of them even if possibly rhetorical.
You insulted me and I’m okay with your opinions that I’m ignorant, “not on the level”, or whatever. I literally just asked a question.
EDIT: I failed to proofread and had a redundancy collision.