Is there any hope? Or is it inevitable that big corporations will take over what started as a way to escape big corporate platforms and to focus on real communities and discussions and replace it with a toxic shithole pumped full of ads?

  • @AlecSadler
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    1232 years ago

    We could collectively vote to defederate them.

        • @[email protected]
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          92 years ago

          So it would need to be a movement across instances, not just a single action, but given the principles of the user base here and why we’re here I think that movement would be very successful.

            • @riceball
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              52 years ago

              It’s giving 2000s hello kitty fan site

          • @[email protected]
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            42 years ago

            For now, in the past 30 days I’ve seen instances be very active in moderation and development and federation\defederation. They defederate even when they don’t need to. This anecdotal experience leads me to believe that most instances will defederate from Meta, but I’m certain that a few of them will not.

        • mochi
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          122 years ago

          But just as a side note, a user can block an entire instance as well, at least on Mastodon. I haven’t checked for that functionality on Lemmy. That’s not defederation, but it prevents you from seeing things you don’t want to at the user level.

          • @captainlezbian
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            32 years ago

            I haven’t found it but I’d love to see it if I can. As world is struggling I want to use an alt but most alternatives haven’t defederated exploding heads

            • mochi
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              22 years ago

              What happened with exploding heads?

              • @captainlezbian
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                12 years ago

                They’re extremely comfortable with homophobia and transphobia. When I was seeing if I could ban them for example they were talking about considering “cis” and “cisgender” a slur that’s bannable, but they don’t consider a particular word starting with an f that bad.

      • Saint of Illusion
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        92 years ago

        Though the participation is needed/appreciated, can we let “This!” die with Reddit?

        • @riceball
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          42 years ago

          This! (jk this comment is an ironic statement funded by the shadow government)

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