Womble

Fediverse is not private in any sense. Anything you post (or up/downvote) is blasted out to every federated instance and only gets deleted if that instance respects the delete command, which you cant rely on.

No, it doesnt just mean “things getting shitter”. The term was made to describe a specific path that big tech companies have followed of transfering value up the supply chain and shittyness down. It is:

1. Make a product good for users so that you attract a lot of them but make sure you have lock in.
2. Once you have lots of locked in users, make their experience shit in order to benefit advertisers to bring in money.
3. Once you have lots of advertisers and they need to use your platform in order to reach users, make the platform shit (and expensive) for them in order to extract as much money as possible from them.

Its not “easy” but its not that difficult either, I’ve overseen a migration from a gitea instance to github (coporate policy, not my choice) that had information that needed to be retained for regulatory purposes. it took a bit of work, but only a single engineer working on it on and off around other tasks for a few weeks including testing and dry runs.