Class traitor.
I want LGBTQ+/Straight people to just shut up about it
That's nice. I just want to exist, without the growing fear of being attacked or murdered in the street.
This is why I get so mad when people act like political opponents "just disagree with each other", and that we should all still be able to get along. These people won't be happy and won't stop until they're allowed to murder people like me in the streets just for being gay.
I went to a church when I was a kid that taught that wine was completely non-alcoholic in biblical times.
Sidney Powell looks like a clown that ran out of makeup while getting into character
Why did I learn how to read?
Maybe stop charging twelve hundred dollars for a fucking phone.
Deleted my first post, as I'm confusing myself. No official post has been on lemmy.world regarding the upcoming fiasco. However, the mastodon.world account on Mastodon has stated that they will NOT be defederating, and will take a "wait and see" stance.
https://mastodon.world/@mwadmin/110654590632768079
Bear in mind that mastodon.world is hosted and administered by the same person as lemmy.world. They didn't specifically say that lemmy.world will have the same standpoint, but I hope not. Even though I am very new to the Fediverse, I already view the .world servers as a home, and I would hate to leave. I do believe that Meta is a known bad actor. EDITED: I'm torn over the whole thing, but I know I want nothing to do with Meta.
Meta is a socially transmitted disease. There's no reason to "wait and see" with Meta, we already know them. Meta is not new, it's Facebook, with a new name and a fancy new logo to deflect attention away from all the terrible shit they do and have done, to individuals, groups, communities, and society as a whole.
So much terrible shit that unlike many Wikipedia articles that have a "controversy" section, Meta/Facebook has entire pages devoted to their terrible shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_content_management_controversies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_emotional_manipulation_experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
There's more. Meta is not some new and exciting player in the ActivityPub field. They're a known quantity, and there's nothing to gained by allowing them to flood the Fediverse with low-quality shitposts at best, massive social manipulation campaigns at worst, and everything in between. In my humble opinion.
Defederation is a feature, not a weakness.
Recall that 3rd party mobile apps came before the official Reddit Mobile app. For many people, especially Reddit's oldest users, their 3rd party app was Reddit for them.
It was better before people absolutely fucking insisted on scraping reddit posts to bring over here. Post after post after post of regurgitated bot posts, without a single comment, no engagement at all. Fun!