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I get meta evil, but aren’t we just blocking out any users from accessing the wider fediverse?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Facebook can bootstrap their product with federated content made by users who are in the fediverse because they don’t want to support a company like Facebook. By not defederating, you would be helping Facebook every time you post a comment or make a post because you would be giving Facebook free content to further their for-profit goals.

Edit: they will also be taking fediverse content and displaying it next to ads.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

See that’s a good point. Facebook is going to get fediverse data regardless of defederating them. Most of this stuff is public anyway.

But displaying fediverse content next to ads w/o consent is kinda gross