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A Brief Mastodon Guide for Social Media Worriers (axbom.com)
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Nice introduction by Per Axbom who also just rejoined the Fediverse.

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[–] humanetech@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, this is a very good point. I haven't heard of cases like this yet, but it is something that's just waiting to happen. I am all for trusting people, being trust-first in a society that promotes distrust before trust. But in this case consequences of doing so can be dire, and it is quite a risk you take. Besides for the purposes trolling, someone could also silently monetize collected data by selling it to shady harvesting companies.

Currently various research is underway for going towards a peer-to-peer fediverse. Well actually a hybrid decentralization with a combination of p2p and federated services. In those p2p clients you don't need to self-host a server, just install an app.

Other than that currently we have to go from reputation of the admins. If they have a proven track record and many people vouching for their trustworthiness, then we can be reasonably confident in choosing their instance.