How do we feel about Meta joining the Fediverse? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by archchan@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.

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[-] SuperIce@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

Is that necessary though? I feel like we should let them join. If they do something malicious, then we can block them. IMO, it doesn't make sense to just preemptively block them for no real reason.

[-] TrinityTek@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

They've demontrated their evil nature in the past, promoting divisive and inciteful material and anything to drive engagement for the sake of advertiser dollars. I don't think we need to wait for them to do it again in the Fediverse. Better to head that shit off right up front.

[-] Cynosure@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

It is wholly necessary. They will start massive data mining operations if they join, harming users of all instances.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 0 points 3 years ago

Data mining can happen without any of that, everything you post in the fediverse is literally available for anyone to see. Realistically, the most harm they can do is build controlled communities that grow so huge that they drown out all of the fediverse's open communities.

[-] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 1 points 3 years ago

Look at what happened with Google Chrome and browser standards. We don't want a company that dominates the landscape changing the rules in their favour.

[-] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 1 points 3 years ago

Your most harm scenario is exactly what they want to do.

[-] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 1 points 3 years ago

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Microsoft did it before, we shouldn't let Meta do it now.

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