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Everyone should block their leeching arses
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Because they’ll simply be here to mine data, monitor and somehow monitise it.
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The more people who use anything they create, the worse it is for everyone else.
Here is a list of the Fediverse instances that have agreed to block any meta owned/run instances that may arise
Will beehaw be joining them? I couldn’t see it on the list.
I think this has happened almost entirely on Mastodon, let’s wait a couple of days
I don’t think you’ll see many lemmmy instances on the list, since it’s going to be viewed primarily as a microblogging issue.
But folks using Fediverse microblogging platforms can still read Lemmy posts and comments. Meta can still pull content for whatever it is they want to do, and a large number of poorly moderated users can still find Lemmy communities. So it should still be on people’s minds.
im ootl, why is project92 a threat? is it federated as well?
I’m out of the loop, what are meta instances?
Meta aka Facebook plans to create a new product compatible with ActivityPub (What allows the feddiverse to federate).
No one wants to allow cancer to spread so this list came to exist.
Meta met privately with stux (runs mstdn.social) and supposedly discussed starting a new federated platform. People are planning to defederate because this gives Meta free reign to inject ads through federation, and are angry that admins/mods are meeting privately with a for profit corporation make decisions within what is an open source community with open source software
The great thing about the fediverse is you can just move off mstdn.social and still keep interacting with everyone else.
God I love this stuff.
Meta Platforms Inc, aka Facebook.
Thank god I thought it was another fediverse term I had to force my unwrinkled brain to understand
FediDB will be shutting down in July (2023) according to its creator. The list of username’s that pledged can be found on fedipact.online
I believe a lot more instances will block Meta once more details come out (I know the instance I’m on is talking).
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More is not better. Also if you think Facebook, Meta or the zuck are good people, you haven’t been paying attention.
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Its not like you have to use their instances. What harm will it cause, if anything it’d benefit us.
It won’t benefit us. Big Tech’s goal ultimately is Embrace Extend Extinguish with…everything. That last E, “extinguish”, can be substituted with “own” or “dominate”.
Look at React. They created it. Now, look at VS Code. Made by Microsoft. VSC has telemetry built in.
These are now ubiquitous tools. They’re so ubiquitous that knowing React is practically necessary if you want to do frontend. You may as well use VS Code while you’re at it.
The implications of allowing them to have any influence or participation are huge.
Now tons of businesses rely on Meta’s framework just to survive. They also dictate the terms - how it can be used, whether or not royalties are necessary, license compatibility, who you are allowed to compete against - the sky is the limit.
It all boils down to status quo.
Yep, it looks as if they’re working on a Twitter alternative that’d use the ActivityPub protocol, which Mastodon, Lemmy, Peertube, Kbin, etc all use.
