• sussy_gussy@wirebase.org
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    They will very soon have the largest userbase of any instance. If your instance gets blocked by Meta, your users suddenly have a fraction of the reach because no Meta people can see your posts anymore. That would put a lot of pressure on admins I imagine.

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      I doubt people who would use Meta’s instance are the sort of interesting people I’m on Lemmy for.

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        1 year ago

        If the other instances federate with Meta’s you won’t have a choice. Content from Meta users will be pouring in.

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          Sort of, you don’t have to subscribe to their communities or follow users from Meta. We don’t want to talk with Facebook users, that’s not why we’re here. There isn’t a single person on Facebook who would feel disrupted if they suddenly didn’t see my content anymore, either.

      • sussy_gussy@wirebase.org
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        Me too and I don’t think it’ll be a threat to Lemmy but on Mastodon, there are a lot of old people who already use Meta platforms themselves.