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[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] necrxfagivs@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The admins stated on Mastodon that they're not going to defederate until something happens. Knowing Meta they shouldn't give them the chance.

Here's the link: https://mastodon.world/@mwadmin/110654590632768079

[–] trifictional@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, looks like I’m switching instances.

[–] Trifictional@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And done. I love federation.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thats unfortunate. I'll be moving instances then. Giving Meta a chance is a lot like giving a mosquito a chance to not suck your blood.

[–] bluefirex@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

This behavior is why the fediverse alienate users and makes it hostile for new people to join.

They didn't do anything, yet. Give them the chance but start with 2 strikes on their account already. They fuck up, THEN you defederate. Innocent until proven otherwise.

Edit: go on, downvote me. Show me your face. Show me how you're all against growth on Lemmy and niceness to each other.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Innocent until proven otherwise is a concept for criminal court.

We aren't putting someone in jail, we are looking at their past business practices and deciding not to do business with them based on their obvious habits.

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Innocent until proven otherwise.

There are many years of proof already about facebook/meta acting very maliciously, actively breaking laws and being fined for it, is that not proof enough? How many more do you need before you can say they're not innocent at all?

[–] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Innocent until proven otherwise.

Corporations like Meta have shown time and time again that they cannot be trusted to play nice with anyone else. Have we already forgotten about Cambridge Analytica or the plethora of other scandals they've been at the center of? The proof has been in plain view for a while now.

[–] lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmy.ml is also the instance made by the lemmy devs

[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 1 points 2 years ago

Can y'all stop using this goblin as the thumbnail? Thanks

[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is not particularly surprising. Lemmy was started as an anti-corporate project by leftists after /r/chapotraphouse got quarantined and later banned (subreddit for the most popular podcast and most donated patreon at the time), with the explicit goal of preventing corporate control from being able to silence leftists when they're blasting off. CTH was skyrocketing in subscribers at the time it was quarantined on August 8th 2019, and when even quarantining didn't stop its growth or slow down its activity afterwards Reddit pulled the plug under the excuse it promoted violence, but the only particularly edgy thing ever said there was "slave owners should be killed" and support for John Brown. This evolved post-ban into the assessment that Spez banned it because he wants to own slaves.

When that happened there was a massive shift in the leftist parts of reddit as we very quickly realised we'd be targeted if reddit ever deemed us to be too successful, and projects like Lemmy began in reaction. CTH's community in fact moved to Lemmy 3 years ago, and resides on Hexbear.net but has not yet joined the rest of federated lemmy due to technical issues (it used to be a fork with a different front end).

Given lemmy's specific anti-corporate origins seeing Lemmy.ml do this should surprise nobody. It's the correct move anyway.

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Always love to hear the deep lore. Lemmy’s early development makes a lot more sense now. Good on them(you) to leave everything open and learn from Reddit’s mistakes.

Still, free and open has a limit. No Facebook and no Nazis. That’s just common sense everyone used to have.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What happens is the definition of nazi changes to incorporate anyone who disagrees with you.

[–] Serdan@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I have this theory that people who complain about everyone being called nazis, have themselves been called a nazi.

Why do people call you a nazi, hmm?

[–] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When I asked that I ended up with more than -100 and comments like "oh so you defend them".

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I like waffles."

"Oh, so you hate pancakes!"

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes, in fact I'm calling for the centrally-organised, systematic eradication of pancakes from the breakfast menu. That's what I mean when I say I like waffles.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The fact that you people can't see how distasteful it is to compare the fucking Nazis to breakfast foods in a cute way, says everything anyone needs to know about you.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

You're young, you'll weather with time. We're all just trying to get along.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Yes, it didn't take long for somebody to accuse me of being a literal nazi. Those are odd people, though. Don't tend to meet them in the real world, only on the internet.

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It would be even greater if lemmy.world does it ;)

[–] gamers_Mate@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I am proud of Lemmy.ml for defederating. The second I find out if kbin social or lemmy world defederate or not I will just move to the other one since I use both. (Edit turns out Lemmy.ml is run by Tankies and also allows federation with lemmygrad.)

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The admins/devs are communists, they hate anything corporate related, so it's no surprise.

[–] Ignacio@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago
[–] geeknix@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a paid up lemmy.ml annual subscriber, I support this and am very happy with my choice. Good job guys.

[–] choroalp@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

Dementia is hard

[–] mobley@ani.social -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~But Lemmy isn't activitypub? Unless threads opens up to lemmys protocol it wouldn't be able to see anything anyway... Right?~~

[–] cthellis@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Generally disagree. If you want the Fediverse to become a large open standard, if not the largest, then this is going to just be a matter of course. Companies will seek to commodify all their offerings, whether they use open standards or not. Many exist that commodify on top of open-source software and open standards. The important part is to ACHEIVE the open standard to begin with, and I think it's short-sighted to pre-emptively block something that could be a strong item down that path, and before it might show itself to be more harmful towards that goal.

It can always be blocked later, situation-depending.