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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[–] v81@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I'm actually really trying to play devils advocate... But I'm struggling.

I came to get away from the main stream socials.

I came to minimise my farmed data footprint.

I came to find other like minded people.

These principals alone are shared by quite a few I guess.

If we end up hooked up to the machine we were trying to escape from then coming here was near pointless.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm not joking when I say our only sure way of escaping the machine is to get an off-grid cabin in the woods and no longer participate in the internet.

[–] v81@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

At this point I'm limiting what I access and where. I'm targeting a more 1990's internet experience. I love learning and technical stuff and would miss it if I went off grid, no matter how tempting that is.

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