They’re trying to do a: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

Let’s just be glad they didn’t go with Lexx.

They have to pay someone to manage the account in the first place. No reason that worker can’t do both.

Or not making the same mistake twice, and opting for something decentralised that your company owns, such as your own Mastodon instance.

Disabling JavaScript is a bold ask.

Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key sectors including semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing, since at least mid-2023.

Gee who is really interested in securing semiconductor technologies these past few years.

I wonder who could be behind this attack, probably Zimbabwe.

… Yes? What does that have to do with anything?

Those companies want an easy quick way for people to join because they want constant growth. That means not doing any sort of real checking or verification, it’s not because these billion dollar company cannot afford to, it’s because they don’t want to.

Their problems are not our problems.

Because they want user data over anything.

We want quality communities over anything.

We can be selective, they go bankrupt without consistent growth.

Right, but they’re shit and don’t good things out of principle.

We, the Fediverse, are the alternative to them.

Most instances are open wide to the public.

A few have registration requirements, but it’s usually something banal like “say I agree in Spanish to prove your Spanish enough for this instance” etc.

This is a choice any instance can make if they want, none are but that doesn’t mean they can’t or it doesn’t work.

No? The problem of tech oligarchy is that they control the systems. Here anyone can start up a new instance at the press of a button. That is the solution, not allowing unfiltered freeze peach garbage.

Small “local” human sized groups are the only way we ensure the humanity of a group. These groups can vouch for each-other just as we do with Fediseer.

One big gatekeeper is not the answer and is exactly the problem we want to get away from.

You counter them by moving to a different instance.

Closed instances with vetted members, there’s no other way.