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.
Liberal/free market ideals are very well aligned with Fediverse/Lemmy: freedom to chose social media providers without being locked-in, free market of instances, free market of both front-end/backend software, freedom to run or fork the software myself…
Sure, I didn’t get to chose this instance’s policy, but a) I could find another or start my own if I disagreed (Not so different than electing representatives in a liberal democracy), and b) so far I don’t disagree with this policy as Facebook is a threat to some basic software freedoms…
Personally I dislike all the -ism labels. Issues are complex with often contradictory stances. It’s almost as though labels are used to divide people on otherwise common issues and common ground by oversimplifying policies into tribalism.
Free market is exactly the cause of things such as meta. It’s not about consumers having a choice, it’s about enabling any scheme to get rich, so the choice is actually to companies to take the ability to choose from the consumers (the market is free, not the people). Thank god the whole point of the fediverse is to not be a market and not treat it’s users as consumers Edit : actually fb and ig users aren’t the real consumers, they are the product, and other companies who buy their personal data are the actual consumers, but anyway, this is irrelevant to the question, I just wanted to point out another reason to fight them. It’s really difficult to escape the grasp of the GAFAM since they basically control the world nowadays (can’t not use youtube), but thankfully the fediverse is here as a tool to help us escape meta and the likes, let’s not let it be corrupted by capitalism
Couldn’t agree more with your last paragraph. That’s why I’ve always hated all political parties. 90 percent of issues are as simple are supporting or being against something