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.

  • @MysticSmear
    -7•1 year ago

    Just feel’s antithetical to FOSS and decentralized social media. I came to Lemmy because a corporate douche was ruining Reddit because management and users had different ideas about what is and isn’t acceptable uses of that platform. Lemmy throwing up a big ol firewall because someone does it differently to them just isn’t what I expected to find here. Maybe that’s my fault. But Lemmy has a content and user drought. And I’m okay with that as long as it’s showing growth. I mean it takes a long time to build up content and communities.

    But with beehaw defederating everyone they don’t like and the official Lemmy devs now basically doing the same thing to threads when the fediverse finally starts to go mainstream and attracting a wealth of new users just leaves a “throw the baby out with the bath water” impression on me.

    But it seems like I’m the oddball one out here judging by the downvotes and overall negative responses from Lemmy-ers but it’s just my perspective.

    • @Traegs
      10•1 year ago

      The fediverse is a space built to escape these corporate profit machines. So you’re ok with them invading that space?

      Federating with Threads might help the fediverse grow, but Threads has the ability to become the largest instance within it. Then they’ll be the ones to defederate from us. After that happens the fediverse will be worse off than if they never joined.

      The fediverse is a threat to corporate run social media. Threads joining the fediverse is step one of their inside job to bring it down.

    • @MeetInPotatoes
      2•1 year ago

      I came to Lemmy because a corporate douche was ruining Reddit

      And now you want corporate douches to have a foothold here?! C’mon man, figure it out.

        • @MeetInPotatoes
          1•1 year ago

          Exactly, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here. Why did people even create accounts here if not to be free from corporate enshitification?!