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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (20 children)

I'm undecided.

On the one hand, Facebook/Meta are not interested in the health of the fediverse. This is clearly an "embrace, extend, extinguish" move. On the other... they're sure to have a large number of users, which in turn means a large amount of content that we'll want to view/participate in. Each of those users will in turn be an opportunity for us to encourage to migrate to the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I can understand the appeal of growing numbers but I don't think the risks outweigh the rewards. Unlimited growth is unsustainable anyway. We can exist without Meta. Meta is a poison pill that will eventually monopolize the fediverse if it has its way. This will not be the first time they killed off a decentralized platform.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm not interested in growing user numbers. But I am interested in having access to the content those users generate.

I am leaning towards defederating Meta... but for now am taking a more "wait and see" approach.

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

Thank you for being transparent. Your plan seem to align with that of some major mastodon’s instance owners, as they agreed with this guy https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/07/03/instagram-threads-and.html

will be “Watching Like a Hawk, with our Fingers Over the Block Button.” We will NOT be pre-emptively taking a “Fediblock as a Frist Strike” position.

His reasonings are much better supported compared to Eugene’s. I my opinion he seemed to downplay EEE without any defence mechanism

In my personal opinion, I support defederation until Meta can prove they won’t hurt fediverse. My points are

  1. Fediverse, especially Lemmy is growing so well without Threads/reddit. We don’t need their contents. People who do would have stayed with reddit already. Having said that, why would we want to federate in the first place

  2. The whole reason Lemmy is where it is today is due to people fed up with reddit’s. They’ve lost trust on Big Tech.

  3. Imagine Meta set up an Lemmy instance. Are we willing to give them for free all the mineable data they would not have otherwise from scrapping? What if they use all that extra data to better train their AI and sell more targeted ads

  4. On an instance like aussie.zone, our profile is likely linked to a city/location. I wonder how many of us set up accounts here just for this instance. I know I do, where i have another account elsewhere for my hobbies, interest groups so that I cannot be traced easily. With that in mind, people can easily create an account elsewhere to follow threads if they really want. Multi account is already supported in app such as Memmy

  5. We can federate later if we really need to

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