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.

  • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    …the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta.

    When the typo is more accurate than what was intended to be written.

    • PorkrollPosadist@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Channeling Stallman and referring to the Windows 32 bit Application Programming Interface as lose32 instead of win32.

  • Mikina@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I would like to also add this argument into the discussion, since I’ve seen a lot of people who are voting for federating with meta, with the argument that defederating just because we don’t like someone goes against the idea of Fediverse, and interconnected network of diverse servers that is should inclusive and allows people to connect.

    It’s quite the contrary - allowing Meta in goes directly against the idea of Fediverse, and we should fight it as much as possible.

    This is a literal quote from the main header on https://www.fediverse.to/

    The fediverse is a collection of community-owned, ad-free, decentralised, and privacy-centric social networks.

    Each fediverse instance is managed by a human admin. You can find fediverse instances dedicated to art, music, technology, culture, or politics.

    Join the growing community and experience the web as it was meant to be.

    Judging by this main selling point of the Fediverse, it sounds to me like Meta shouldn’t be in the Fediverse do begin with, and every instance should defederate from them by default.

  • synth@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    preemptively blocking an instance just because it’s owned by meta and not due to bad conduct is cringe as fuck

    • MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      In what universe are you living in that meta does not have a history chock full of bad conduct?! Frog, meet scorpion.

      Oh, and stop misusing “cringe” while you’re at it.

  • justdoit@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Every time I see a picture of him I think it has to be edited or something. He’s like a walking Snapchat filter.

  • Luxsidus@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Joined a few Lemmy instances, but the admin team taking actions like these might make lemmy.ml my main place to go. Anything corporate is irredeemable.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      o7. We’re out here for yall, and we’re gonna make sure the fediverse stays inoculated from threats.

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Thanks a lot, I was thinking of DMing about it. I am vocal about defederation of Big Tech instances, and any Big Tech elements (Cloudflare, CF/Google captchas). These must be isolated away from Fediverse at all costs.

        For people who read this, I must also tell that WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Zoom, iMessage… all of these “chat” platforms are made upon defederated XMPP. Google used to also maintain a XMPP federated service, and killed XMPP for mass adoption. This is what Western Big Tech does.

        • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOP
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          1 year ago

          It’s very strange to me that a lot of the pro-facebook views below seem to start with the base assumption that facebook is out to help the fediverse, and have no malicious motives behind all this. Its like inviting a con-man into your home because they super-promised they’ll make you rich.

          Really surprising that some people can’t see through Facebooks opportunism, and are suddenly willing to trust these con-artists.

          • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            The lack of critical thought has done a number on society. Everyone wants bite sized convenient information to parrot around, instead of doing research and being vigilantes of society, as the former is lazy and easy to do. I try a lot, but the discourse gap has widened so much, that many people only bother to talk and listen when they are hurt by these tech giants and big brands.

            Last month, I did make a comment regarding defederating any Twitter/Facebook instances in Fediverse, and I surprisingly received some downvotes. People just do not realise the dangers of wanting growth at all costs. Preventing poisoning of roots is essential.