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Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by ruffsl@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Lemmy.ml has now blocked Threads.net

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[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

Every time I see his face it looks like it's a photo shop to make him look bad but it's his actual face

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[-] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 years ago

Good news! Fuck Zuck!

[-] maiion@chat.maiion.com 30 points 2 years ago

My instance as well as the other Lemmy and Mastodon instances on this list have blocked Threads.

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[-] ZheSquirrel@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

I mean, if Lemmy.world doesn't when they decide to try and move in, I'll just move on to the next site that does. Prolly Lemmy.ml

[-] AlgonquinHawk@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago

Can someone ELI5 this situation to me? Not sure what Meta can do to instances/the Fediverse.

[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

The will federate, try their best to suck as many users from fediverse as possible into threads, then defederate and become a walled garden again.

As for how they will suck users away:

Make their algorithms prefer posts from threads, so anyone wanting to reach a wider audience needs to move to threads
Add twitter like checkmarks that are only available for users of threads (they will say it is for security since they need to verify the idwntity of checkmarked people)
Add features that are not exposed on activity pub, so that you have to be on threads to use them (twitter did the same by for example not making polls available over API)
Intentionally make their activity pub slow and unreliable to make it look like other instances are broken and threads is fast and reliable.
Probably much more

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[-] zombuey@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm pretty conflicted about this I gotta say.

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[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago

I don't generally judge people based on their appearance, but this man's face gives me the heebie-jeebies. There's something alienating about the lack of affect he seems to have, plus his features seem to be an approximation of a human face - the mouth is too small, the ears too big, the forehead too shiny...

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[-] gnarly@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

So that settles it. We have an option if meta federated and it goes to shit. Lemmy.world's stance is correct. Let's just see how this goes.

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