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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Am I to understand that I may see THREADS posts in the main feed here soon??? Oh god.... 🤢🤢🤢🤮

Can't they just leave us the fuck alone???

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Gate keeping time, this is one of few situations where gate keeping is good

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I‘m pretty sure Lemmy lets you block instances just like Mastodon. In that case, if your instance decides to federate with them, you can just block that instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'll move to an instance that aligns with my views instead..who's to say that there won't be some weird as backdoor deals with the instance owner and fuckerburg. Money makes people do bad bad things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

While I get the sentiment, your posts are public anyway, so they’re just a tiny step away from being scraped by Meta. Technically, they wouldn’t need to bother with federation for just profiling you or training their AI on your or anyone’s posts. Although, Meta will sure as hell find a way to blacken the pages - one way or any other.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

They’ve found a way to push disguised ads, haven’t they?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

God forbid our communication protocol of choice gets widely adapted before global communist revolution.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

If the rest of the instances let them, then yes, but if none of the instances do, then no.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yups. Lemmy.world is the biggest instance that hasn't pre-emptively defederated from Threads. That's problematic, because it's also the biggest content provider for Lemmy. Ruud & Co are really dropping the ball here.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So anyone with a meta account could post ads that float through to here?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

As long as meta isn't instantly defederated, and as such I guess I should switch to an instance that will defederate simply to keep ads away.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Anyone can create a Lemmy account and post ads already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

But i don't see corporate accounts here posting ads like they do on Facebook, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

My home instance is taking a wait and see approach. If we get a bunch of ads or hate speech then they're out.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Meta needs to be cancelled from existence.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

I think Cottle means all the engineers at Meta have good intentions and I believe him. Its not the engineers whom I doubt its the managers, MBAs and CEOs I don't trust.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That reminded me to finally delete my Lemmy.world account 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What's the issue with lemmy.world? Serious question

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

A little while ago a bunch of instances all decided not to federate with threads, lemmy.world said they would, a bunch of people got upset.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's federated with Threads. I dont wanna be on an instance federated with Threads. Don't know why I got downvoted but whatevss