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Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/meta@lemmy.ml
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It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it's users will not be allowed to proceed.

We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.

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[–] 84 points 3 years ago (12 children)

People left reddit because of corporate f*ckery, and some of them are now making excuses for meta?? What kind of mental gymnastics is this?

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  • [+] 23 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I agree with your sentiment, however I don't think Reddit is a sinking ship. It sucks, me and many other people are angry with them, some of us left but it's not nearly enough to make them actually sink. Reddit is too recognizable a brand.
    They're too big to fail.

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

    This - I don’t care much about “corporate fuckery” in this context. The reason I left Reddit is that losing Apollo was sufficiently painful to prompt me to try something else. Honestly the pervasive anti-capitalist and FOSS-worshiping sentiments here are kind of off-putting.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    The reason we lost Apollo and others is exactly what I meant by "corporate fuckery". I respect that you see "anti-capitalist and FOSS-worshipping sentiments" off-putting, they're definitely pervasive in the community, and I personally vibe with that. because it's all cause-and-effect. What happened with Reddit isn't one company being shitty to their userbase while seeking profit. It's a pattern. That's the system working correctly. The "anti-capitalist and FOSS-worshipping sentiments" are coming from people seeing that and taking a stance. Is reddit taking a stance against their users? Fine, we're gonna make our own reddit with blackjack et cetera and so on.

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

    If you're against foss go to adobe, they have subscriptions (finance capitalism, rent seeking)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I’m not anti-FOSS but I do believe there’s a place for both it and paid/closed-source software to coexist. I don’t think proprietary software is inherently evil and am fine paying for it if I get a corresponding amount of value from its use.

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