I’m getting really tired of trying to run away from big tech, only to be ensnared again by the greed and/or naivety of sites who ultimately cave to the whims of big tech.

Mastodon has already caved, and the silence of lemmy’s and kbin’s developers over this matter isn’t exactly reassuring. Since I more or less still have my bags packed from leaving reddit, what are some other communities I could try that would be more resilient to corporate encroachment?

  • dbtonez
    6•1 year ago

    uh well, i dont understand… you are able to self host these services. you can self host a Masto instance, a lemmy instance, and a kbin instance. you aren’t tied to big tech just because a large instance has federated with big tech… so i don’t see how “Mastodon has caved”. i am on mstdn.social and the admin is blocking Meta from the start as Threads is not allowed to operate in the EU at the moment (exception is London, right?)

    either self host or find an instance that isn’t federating with big tech. you don’t have to run anywhere.

    • ReCursing
      3•1 year ago

      Threads is available in the UK, the UK is not in the EU any more. We theoretically have data protection laws grandfathered in from the EU but they’re not enforced