I cam here to get away from all the corporate BS, but suddenly people want to welcome Facebook/Meta to the fediverse? I cannot fathom how people see their intentions as pure or innocent, especially since they aim to profit off of the open source software everyone has worked so hard on.

I just don’t see how the fediverse survives if it decides to let these massive companies make their instances. It feels like it’ll be a repeat of the rise of social media, where all the smaller forms got wiped out by large, consolidated social media platforms.

  • TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t there ongoing work on Lemmy to give users the ability to block whole instances? I personally would love it if meta never federates to begin with but if they do, next best thing is being able to block them out of my life.

    I also suspect that several instances will choose to de-federate and this will be a silo I would gladly join.

    EDIT: Mastadon already has the ability for end-users to block domains and instances. So that’s good.