• LazyBane@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ideologically, de-federating an instance just because you don’t like the guy running it would be a bad thing, but Facebook/Meta has been just so toxic to the internet as a whole it’s hard to really find fault with it.

    • WiseassWolfOfYoitsu@lemmy.world
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      My concern is less Suckerburg as much as Meta’s corporate history. My expectation is that they’ll try to use this to conquer and destroy Lemmy.

    • lagomorphlecture@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Ideologically, I find more fault in inviting meta to the playground than locking them out. They are the very definition of an evil corporation and no good can come of it.

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        Pragmatically, twitter style system requires a large networked userbase to be useful for most of the population, otherwise people are tooting into the void in mastodon. So even if I have to work with some soulless corporations to get there I think it’s a net positive. For lemmy i don’t think threads matters much.

    • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I thought the whole ideology of the fediverse was to get away from corporationl influence. So I’d say this is very much true to the ideology as well.

    • paintbucketholder@lemmy.world
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      Yup.

      Facebook has been around for almost two decades.

      This is not some unknown guy - we know exactly what Facebook’s business strategy and ethical and moral conduct looks like.

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      1 year ago

      I saw someone in another discussion say it perfectly: they put the meta back in metastatic!