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[–] 285 points 3 years ago (133 children)
  • [–] 268 points 3 years ago* (106 children)

    The admins stated on Mastodon that they're not going to defederate until something happens. Knowing Meta they shouldn't give them the chance.

    Here's the link: https://mastodon.world/@mwadmin/110654590632768079

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  • [–] 249 points 3 years ago (30 children)

    Thats unfortunate. I'll be moving instances then. Giving Meta a chance is a lot like giving a mosquito a chance to not suck your blood.

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  • [+] 33 points 3 years ago* (5 children)
  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Currently you can with with Lemmy Connect. Maybe with others as well, given the amount of apps coming out by the day. And I'm guessing they'll fold the feature into Lemmy/Kbin proper sometime in the future.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    My (limited) understanding is that if you (we) block other instances locally, that won't stop meta (or whoever) from accessing your (our) information and posts.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Right, there are limitations to app based user blocking of instances. Lemmy/Kbin proper would need to implement a robust user account privacy framework to provide the granular control you're interested in. Personally, I'd like to see this as well.

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  • [+] 23 points 3 years ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    How do you move? I signed up through .world but don't want a chance of touching the poo (meta).

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  • [–] 79 points 3 years ago (44 children)

    Oh, looks like I’m switching instances.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (38 children)

    How do you do that? I'm subscribed to like 50 conmunities. Would I have to start all over? That doesn't sound like it's worth it.

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  • [–] 94 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    Just gonna name-drop the tool I made to do this :) https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

    It's only been out a few days, let me know if you have any issues!

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Honestly it isn't. Nothing about the Fediverse is private or inherently secure in that way. Everything is public. And you should assume that everything you publish through activity pub could eventually be looked at by anyone. If you want private or secure messaging there are non-activity pub open source secure alternate. In fact signing up for Lemmy there's even a field to enter for one. Whether or not a server federates with meta. Meta is still going to data mine the ever-loving shit out of all of them. The point is. None of us are at Meta's wim about being flooded with their toxic content.

    Honestly I want to see meta flooded with our content. So much anti-threads anti Meta sentiment. Actual leftists. And not just make believe right-wing liberals who've been conditioned to think that they are left. It would be hilarious to watch Meta try to play wack-a-mole sanitizing everything. To please their reptilian corporate overlords. And if you don't care and just don't want to see it. You can always block them personally. Why let them data mine in peace. I say we make them work for it.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I'm not real sure how much the Threads Algorithm is going to pass through Mastodon content (and even less sure if it will even be able to pass through Lemmy content). I think the much more valuable aspect is you can pitch your Threads friends that they can move to the Fediverse and actually get to choose what content they see rather than which influencers paid Meta to fill up your feed.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I would add to this that its not just the fediverse, anything you put on the internet should be assumed to be public and non-deletable. Even with GDPR and everything, if the host deletes everything there could dtill be backups, archives, or some random person, corporation, or government could backup everything. Use secure services like signal for things you want to be private and just assume everything else could be public forever.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Oh damn guess I will migrate to lemmy.ml and use that until I find out if lemmy.world defederates or not. (Edit turns out it is run by tankies and they are federated with lemmygrad.) While I may or may not stay on lemmy.world depending on if we federate with meta or not. I will no longer suggest Lemmy.ml.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    The problem with Meta is that they will harm the Fediverse.

    I found this article interesting, written by a dev who worked with google during the XMPP EEE and was originally a XMPP dev, thinking that a big company could only mean more success for the FOSS alternative. He was wrong.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    It's almost like some people crave enshitification.

    "Hey this decentralized stuff is really cool, let's connect with the most gigantic corporate assholes who would absolutely centralize all of it if they could...you know, so we can grow! What could go wrong?"

    LIke...what?

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