I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The Facebook hatred is understandable and justified, but defederating with Threads is a misguided idea:

    • Federation is not required for them to be able to pull the data. Even if you block an instance, they can still pull whatever they want.
    • By closing down with Threads, you’ll be basically guaranteeing that that all the millions of people that are there will never be able to migrate away.
    • By getting major (current) instances to defederate with Threads, it gets easier for Threads to just say “hey, we tried to be open but they still rejected us, so we are just going to go back to our walled garden.”
    • freebee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 months ago

      They’ll try to dominate the way the protocols evolve. Try to push more and more crap into it because they’re too big to ignore. Insert becoming ad, bot, corporate friendlier stuff. Fediverse doesn’t need meta. It’s nice and cosy and rather friendly here, I’ld like it to stay that way. It’s like Google dominates some “open source” and pushes browsers towards more and more DRM friendly etc. We don’t need that.

      • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
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        11 months ago

        That’s not dependent on federating at all. Meta is a member of W3C, they can be a part of developing and evolving ActivityPub at any point without actively running a service with it.