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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[–] rglullis@communick.news 57 points 11 months ago (23 children)

The Facebook hatred is understandable and justified, but defederating with Threads is a misguided idea:

Federation is not required for them to be able to pull the data. Even if you block an instance, they can still pull whatever they want.
By closing down with Threads, you'll be basically guaranteeing that that all the millions of people that are there will never be able to migrate away.
By getting major (current) instances to defederate with Threads, it gets easier for Threads to just say "hey, we tried to be open but they still rejected us, so we are just going to go back to our walled garden."

[–] sour@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

am get off old place without federation

when were you supposed to be responsible for others independent actions

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 11 months ago

That's the thing: actions from other users and from the key players are not "independent". It is a social network, actions and reactions depend on the context and the relationships of everyone involved.

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