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Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem with Meta is that they will harm the Fediverse.

I found this article interesting, written by a dev who worked with google during the XMPP EEE and was originally a XMPP dev, thinking that a big company could only mean more success for the FOSS alternative. He was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's almost like some people crave enshitification.

"Hey this decentralized stuff is really cool, let's connect with the most gigantic corporate assholes who would absolutely centralize all of it if they could...you know, so we can grow! What could go wrong?"

LIke...what?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish even one person could give the actual steps on how Facebook is going to ruin the fediverse instead of just spamming this same one article and throwing around the same buzzwords like XMPP, EEE etc. of which nobody had heard about a week ago.

There's so many people here right now reading this thinking that defederating is going to prevent Facebook from seeing the content you post here and collecting the little data that's available to them. It doesn't. That's not what defederating does.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not about the data they can collect. As long as we don't use the Meta app or register in their instance we're on the clear. The problem is giving them power.

I'm not an evil ~~genius~~ shithead like Zuck, but it could go this way:

They enter the Fediverse as the biggest instance.
They artificially slow down connections with other instances. That way, lots of users from smaller intances will migrate to the Meta one. Only the ones concerned about our privacy will remain in independent instances.
Once most of the userbase of the Fediverse is on their instance, they keep slowing it, or adding "features" only available in their app, effectively building a wall between them and the rest of instances.
Finally they defederate, leaving the rest of the fediverse weaker than it was.

There are some key thoughts in this article.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“ I'm not an evil genius like Zuck”

You give this ass bag too much credit. He’s a rich boy from rich parents. He stole Facebook from real thinkers and passed it off as his own.

He may be evil but he’s far from a genius. He’s as much of a genius as Elon is. Only thing Elon and Zuck are good at is fooling people they are smart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can totally see that.