FediDev KR and FediLUG are launching the first dedicated Fediverse & Social Web track at COSCUP 2026 in Taipei, creating a landmark gathering point for the open social web community in East Asia. This technical track seeks session proposals covering ActivityPub implementations, client development, moderation tooling, and the complex governance of federated communities. Participants can contribute insights on instance administration and the broader interoperable frameworks of decentralized protocols during the two-day conference in August. With the submission window closing on May 9, 2026, this initiative marks a significant milestone in fostering regional collaboration and advancing the technical evolution of the decentralized social web.
  • mrnobody@reddthat.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    My question is: While privacy seems to be increased with federated platforms, are they really that much more private? Do bots and web scrapers still track contents of various instances/servers?

    I’m guessing the data can be tracked well enough even though less details about each user are required. Obviously with reddit you can limit only so much info about you with the account. Lemmy and/or other platforms, are they really better?? Sure, maybe not Meta owned, bought and sold for users’ data, but likely still data being harvested in some manner.

    • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Open source, federated platforms do not:

      • call back ads companies to get your ad id/cookie, so also don’t:
        • cross-reference which posts resulted with viewing the articles and ads in those articles
        • cross-reference which posts resulted with viewing which products in stores
        • check with ads companies which “competition” you switched to and with what content you interacted there
        • have info on how your demographics’ profile (things you interact with) connect with the content you watch
          • so also, they don’t sell this data back to ads companies
      • process which content you interact with in order to make you stay on the platform longer or trigger you to write angry comments so you create content for others
      • process at what local times you view content in order to process how to target your demographics
      • process what you chose to not interact at all (only view, no vote)

      I’m afraid I could go on but I think you get my point

      Someone could be scraping how you vote, what you write, how you write, at what times you write, etc. But for outside scraper there is no way to make sure (from that info) which ads you’ve seen on article sites and what things you bought or browsed. So yes, open-source, federated, socially-run platforms are better for your privacy