I’m getting really tired of trying to run away from big tech, only to be ensnared again by the greed and/or naivety of sites who ultimately cave to the whims of big tech.

Mastodon has already caved, and the silence of lemmy’s and kbin’s developers over this matter isn’t exactly reassuring. Since I more or less still have my bags packed from leaving reddit, what are some other communities I could try that would be more resilient to corporate encroachment?

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So Meta’s plan is to make a twitter-alike that spies on its users and manipulates them into being the hate fueled engagement engine, and then inflict that on the fediverse?

    What’s to stop everyone from pointing out as often as possible that users can still talk to Zuck’s twits without the spying and manipulation by simply doing so from a non-Meta instance, and then defederating Meta once they are no longer dominant?

    Am I just misunderstanding this?

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      So Meta’s plan is to make a twitter-alike that spies on its users and manipulates them into being the hate fueled engagement engine, and then inflict that on the fediverse?

      No one outside their boardroom knows what Meta’s plan is, but I doubt they care much about fedi. They are trying to kill off Twitter and take that marketshare of ~500M users. The fediverse with a total of 9M users (and no advertising revenue) isn’t very important in that scheme.

      They are in deep legal trouble with EU privacy regulations and need to show to EU they are “taking things seriously”. ActivityPub was most likely a nice “freebie” they can use and point out they offer interoperability. The whole fediverse bit is just to escape further GDPR trouble with EU.

      What’s to stop everyone from pointing out as often as possible that users can still talk to Zuck’s twits without the spying and manipulation by simply doing so from a non-Meta instance, and then defederating Meta once they are no longer dominant?

      I’m not sure I understand what you mean? That people would migrate away from Threads if they knew they only knew can access their followers from somewhere else? Why on earth would that ever happen? The opposite is more likely.

      Am I just misunderstanding this?

      Yes?

  • Guadin@k.fe.derate.me
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    This is way too dramatic. Mastodon hasn’t caved. The mastodon.social instance might federate with META, but it is not said it will. The kbin developer is a tad busy with keeping kbin.social instance running and fixing kbin software. So the silence doesn’t mean anything.
    Host your own instance and do whatever you want. That way you can be sure what will happen.

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    I am glad the instance of Mastodon I use will defederate from meta.

    The two biggest instances at the moment as far as I know is kbin social and lemmy world if one allows meta I will just use the other one. Though I recommend any instance that has signed the anti meta pact.
    This shows a list of instances that signed it I would pick one of those.

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        in this case we don’t talk about users who want to block users of another instance. The problem is not the users of meta. The problem is meta itself and all the problems it will bring to the federated network. Whoever cannot see that their intentions are not to promote federated networks but to exploit and extinguish them, is just naive.

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        Owners of an instance can do whatever they want. That’s the whole point of the fediverse. If you don’t like it, then change to an instance that does what you like or create your own. It’s that simple.

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      A split might be good for us, as it would ensure the survival of the Fediverse. Hell, I’d probably just have accounts on both sides.