I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[–] infinitepcg@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I'm in favor of federation. The point of federated networks isn't that there are no evil corporations, but rather that they can't cause damage.

What Facebook can do:

read your public data (they can do this wether anyone federates with them or not)
let their users publish content to other Fediverse users

What they can't do:

serve you ads
serve you an algorithmic feed
impose their ToS or rules
collect data for analytics/tracking/marketing
force you to use a certain client
make changes to the protocol or design

I think this is mostly relevant for Mastodon servers due to the format of the content, but the arguments are the same.

[+] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 9 points 11 months ago (6 children)

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[–] kpw@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Easily incorporated into the posts themselves

We should definitely block instances who insert ads into the content. However there is no evidence of threads.net doing something like this.

Not now… But they can easily do it if they get a majority market share. Don’t behave like they want? Defederated from the majority of the content.

They could threaten to defederate from us so we should defederate from them? It makes no sense.

Are you familiar with the story of EEE and XMPP?

XMPP works great, I use it everyday. It doesn't have to be popular, you only need to convince some of your friends to use it.

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