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submitted 1 year ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/meta@lemmy.ml

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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[-] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago
[-] toasteranimation@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Mikina@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago

I would like to also add this argument into the discussion, since I've seen a lot of people who are voting for federating with meta, with the argument that defederating just because we don't like someone goes against the idea of Fediverse, and interconnected network of diverse servers that is should inclusive and allows people to connect.

It's quite the contrary - allowing Meta in goes directly against the idea of Fediverse, and we should fight it as much as possible.

This is a literal quote from the main header on https://www.fediverse.to/

The fediverse is a collection of community-owned, ad-free, decentralised, and privacy-centric social networks.

Each fediverse instance is managed by a human admin. You can find fediverse instances dedicated to art, music, technology, culture, or politics.

Join the growing community and experience the web as it was meant to be.

Judging by this main selling point of the Fediverse, it sounds to me like Meta shouldn't be in the Fediverse do begin with, and every instance should defederate from them by default.

[-] burgundymyr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

100% I will only be using instances that don't federate with corporations.

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[-] moonmeow@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Awesome. This is great news. I just joined this instance and happy to see this position.

[-] justdoit@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Every time I see a picture of him I think it has to be edited or something. He’s like a walking Snapchat filter.

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Does any other human out there love smoked meats ?

Context for those out of the loop

[-] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

The best part about the full smoked meats vid is when his "friends" (i.e. employees) come over. What really gets me is that the friends NEVER speak unless spoken to, because it's just a really awkward work event where Zuck has to pretend he has friends.

[-] spitz@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It made him look so gosh dang relatable.

No, that's not the word I'm looking for. Unlikeable. That's the one.

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[-] spitz@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I spent a month getting an instance set up on .world, wearing my account in, putting up with the lag and other constant problems... then I read about this threads™ nonsense and how .world were playing a "wait and see" game with an evil empire. Read this thread (heh!), moved to .ml. Much smoother and more glitch-free experience. Just have to start over again. So far so good!

[-] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

What's the difference between lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml? Completely different instances? Sorry I'm new and still don't understand everything

[-] s_s@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Its like one is hotmail and the other is yahoo mail. They are free services/hosts that allow you to access the activityPub protocol. There are hundreds of such providers, and you can even host you own on your own services if you wanted to/were inclined.

Lemmy is a specific layout of the ActivityPub protocol. Continuing the metaphor, you could think of Lemmy like an email newsgroup. All the different lemmy instances display and sort the newsgroups the same way, which is to emulate reddit.

[-] Kushia@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yes but you can access content from both of them from the other. Just browse to it or add the communities from the other to your subscriptions.

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[-] sneezy@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

A lot of people left Reddit because it was a drowning ship. They didn't flock to the fediverse because of what it stands for, and they'll happily bounce over to the next popular corporate run data farm at their earliest convenience.

[-] sneezy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Yoz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks for saving us lemmy.ml Admins.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

o7. We're out here for yall, and we're gonna make sure the fediverse stays inoculated from threats.

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[-] random_prime@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

A welcome move. F**k megacorps polluting everything on internet.

[-] howdy@thesimplecorner.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes excellent! No corporations!!! Just blocked on mine.

[-] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

So... you're not gonna try Threads then???

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[-] Luxsidus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Joined a few Lemmy instances, but the admin team taking actions like these might make lemmy.ml my main place to go. Anything corporate is irredeemable.

[-] oranges@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Kudos...... It's very much appreciated and a refreshing change to not be let down by something you enjoy online.

[-] d3dRabbitt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I am a little new to this. What do you mean by not letting them in, or blocking them? Not allowing them to create a "lemmy.threads" instance or something like that?

[-] sonstwas@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Threads will support the same protocol as Lemmy (which is called ActivityHub), meaning Thread-content is accessible in Lemmy (and other services) and the other way around.

By blocking Threads no content from there will arrive here and the other way around.

[-] d3dRabbitt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the clarification.

[-] blob42@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your integrity and ethics. This action sends a strong message to the capitalist leeches where we stand.

[-] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I hope Lemmy.world does the same.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I think a preemptive block on threads and meta is a wise move! I did it for both my Mastodon and Lemmy instances.

[-] gale@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

This is the kind of thing that made me choose this instance in the first place. Thanks for making my online social place of choice feel safe.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Prophylactic intervention is the best defense against Metastasis.

Well done Lemmy.ml - hopefully the rest of the fediverse follows your example. This is, no exaggeration, an existential threat to the fed.

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[-] TGhost@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.ml is devil they said. Who ? Capitalist's Nazis fasicts

[-] lemuria@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Good riddance to Meta's bullshit. Stop them before they get to the first E in EEE.

Here's a sign to put up at the border between Lemmy.ml and Threads, which will surely have a 100-meter wall built on it with 50 kV electric fences, barbed wire, watchtowers, snipers, and whatever to keep those Meta corporate fuckers out.

Threads Quarantine Zone sign

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[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

God I can’t wait to stop seeing his face, so much of it lately

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