It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it’s users will not be allowed to proceed.

We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.

    • @[email protected]
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      -11 year ago

      Yes and suggesting that average users can simply set up a server and then navigate either Docker or Ansible just to maintain consistent content preferences isn’t perhaps realistic. Even for tech-literate folks it’s kind of a big lift, and I have to suspect it’s one of the issues that could keep the Fediverse from enjoying wider adoption.

      • DessalinesOP
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        201 year ago

        They can also just join an instance that doesn’t mind facebook ads and mass surveillance.

        • @[email protected]
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          -11 year ago

          So just the act of federating with them will subject me to ads? I assumed I would have to be using the threads app.

          • DessalinesOP
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            171 year ago

            If you’ve used instagram in the past 3 years, you’d see how blurry they’ve made the line between post and ad.

            • @[email protected]
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              -111 year ago

              I get where you’re coming from but even if there was no way to block the ads, I still think it’s fine as long as it stays on their instance. If I’m not seeing ads on Lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy but i subscribe to threads.net/c/meta and see one there I don’t see the problem. Would love to hear your thoughts.