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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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 months ago (22 children)

This is like saying "my email provider should block all emails from Gmail".

And they can hoover your data right now. Like, you think bots aren't spidering the site already? It's a public website.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

We do this all the time. Email providers block millions of domains for spam.

[–] kpw@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't see any spam from threads.net.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

I consider most content on Facebook owned sites to be useless spam.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Not yet anyway. I wouldn't expect that to stay the same forever though. Especially considering the amount of spam that's already on Facebook.

Facebook does not have good very good moderation on their platforms (it's only good enough to keep up their image in the public eye), and I don't think threads will be an exception to that.

I feel like it'll probably be one of the bigger sources of spam and hate speech on the Fediverse, at least for servers that don't block it.

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