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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[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (23 children)

I will be leaving if lemmy.world defederates with threads.

Just give users the ability to block instances themselves so we can be done with this.

Stop letting other people make decisions for you.

[–] hessianerd@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I am still new at this. If I block threads, and lemmy.world doesn't defederate, will threads users still see my posts and comments in the communities I participate in? Is the relationship recpricol?

If not... What incentive is there to give my (admittedly mediocre) content to a mega corp whose goal is to take over this space?

I'm genuinely asking.

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Good question. I'm not sure. I still don't even know how users can block entire instances, just communities within those instances.

[–] blawsybogsy@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

blocking instances for users was added in 0.19. it works like community block: you don't see any posts from an instance, but you can see the activity of users from that instance on any other instances where they do stuff.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869

[this is not an endorsement of federating with any meta product. i believe in deplatforming hostile actors, which they've well and truly proven themselves to be.]

[–] hessianerd@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I appreciate the info, however, it doesn't really answer my question. If I instance block I don't see them, but they get to see all of the posts/comments I generate in threads?

This is all really interesting. Kind of reminds me of The City and the City.

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