It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it’s users will not be allowed to proceed.

We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.

    • @Stout4689@lemmy.ml
      9•2 years ago

      A big corporation has the opportunity to tweak things without sharing, offering unique benefits for people of their server, slowly sucking up all the users. Then suddenly there is no federation, as everyone wants the unique features.

      Think about web browser and chromium. Google pretty much dictates the core features of the internet now a days.

      I may me way off base to be honest, just my 2 cents

      • @felis_magnetus@feddit.de
        2•2 years ago

        Nah, you’re spot on. Let’s keep this simple and not muddy the waters. If it’s corporate, it’s evil. All you need for a rule of thumb. There may be rare instances when this isn’t the case, but I’ve yet to see one that lasted for long. Let’s be real here, corporation’s raison d’être is increasing shareholder value and dividends - inherently and inevitably incompatible with the common good.

  • @GutterPunch@lemmy.world
    33•2 years ago

    The great part of federation is that users who want to use Threads still can, and instances who don’t want to federate with Meta don’t have to. People who want to double-dip can sign up for their favorite instance(s) of choice, as well as with Threads. Neither one has to have any app shut down and everyone still gets to make a choice as an end-user rather than be decided upon by an unmovable authority. Win win!

    • @SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
      9•2 years ago

      Liberal/free market ideals are very well aligned with Fediverse/Lemmy: freedom to chose social media providers without being locked-in, free market of instances, free market of both front-end/backend software, freedom to run or fork the software myself…

      Sure, I didn’t get to chose this instance’s policy, but a) I could find another or start my own if I disagreed (Not so different than electing representatives in a liberal democracy), and b) so far I don’t disagree with this policy as Facebook is a threat to some basic software freedoms…

      Personally I dislike all the -ism labels. Issues are complex with often contradictory stances. It’s almost as though labels are used to divide people on otherwise common issues and common ground by oversimplifying policies into tribalism.

      • @Bubs@lemmy.world
        22•2 years ago

        Free market is exactly the cause of things such as meta. It’s not about consumers having a choice, it’s about enabling any scheme to get rich, so the choice is actually to companies to take the ability to choose from the consumers (the market is free, not the people). Thank god the whole point of the fediverse is to not be a market and not treat it’s users as consumers Edit : actually fb and ig users aren’t the real consumers, they are the product, and other companies who buy their personal data are the actual consumers, but anyway, this is irrelevant to the question, I just wanted to point out another reason to fight them. It’s really difficult to escape the grasp of the GAFAM since they basically control the world nowadays (can’t not use youtube), but thankfully the fediverse is here as a tool to help us escape meta and the likes, let’s not let it be corrupted by capitalism

      • Slayer 🦊
        3•2 years ago

        Couldn’t agree more with your last paragraph. That’s why I’ve always hated all political parties. 90 percent of issues are as simple are supporting or being against something

  • spitz
    19•2 years ago

    I spent a month getting an instance set up on .world, wearing my account in, putting up with the lag and other constant problems… then I read about this threads™ nonsense and how .world were playing a “wait and see” game with an evil empire. Read this thread (heh!), moved to .ml. Much smoother and more glitch-free experience. Just have to start over again. So far so good!

    • DessalinesOPEnglish
      17•2 years ago

      Every one of their press releases has fediverse integration as a major selling point. Whether they go through with it or not, we should be ready to take them at their word.