A short case study covering what happened with Raspberry Pi on the Fediverse.
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tl;dr Rasberry Pi hired an ex-cop who specialized in surveillance and major players in the fediverse got the Rasberry Pi mastodon instance defederated
I actually disagree with the other commenters and personally love this, it’s keeping companies accountable for their actions. Yeah, it’s legally fine to hire someone who specializes in anti-privacy (and then be stupidly arrogant about it), but now the power is in the people’s hands and they’re punishing you for it.
Also a good thread on this: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109483029878490088
I found this article to be interesting. Dealing mostly with the lessons to be learned from the very bad way in which all this was handled: http://www.databasesoup.com/2022/12/lessons-from-raspberry-pi-in-how-not-to.html
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy
Mastodon as a platform is really good at generating pointless drama from the most minor incidents.
Seems like this is just kind of a common thread with social media, no?
It seems very common with Twitter-like social media platforms (which includes Mastodon). In my experience it happens much less in forums or link aggregators.