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  • megane-kunEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    I am not sure if I should be doing this, but hell…

    For the handful of us who’ve moved (temporarily or otherwise) to lemm.ee, there’s currently a consultation going on about defederation from Meta’s Threads. Upvoting the post means you’re in favor of defederation.

    EDIT:

    I was wrong in calling that thread a vote. Changed “there’s currently a vote going on about defederation…” to “there’s currently about a consultation going on about defederation”. At any rate, it’s not a vote.

      • megane-kunEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        Yeah, it’s kinda expected from lemmy.ml to do that. The only other instances I expected to act right away are lemmygrad and hexbear. But lemm.ee? Caught me by surprise, lol!

        • @ExploringLiteratureEnglish
          6•1 year ago

          Supporting lemm.ee’s decision. Big companies rarely do good when invited into independent spaces.

          • megane-kunEnglish
            5•1 year ago

            I missed this part, and I was wrong in calling it a “vote”:

            … Facebook has a built-in financial incentive to break our rules. ActivityPub has no protections against advertising, so it’s likely we will end up having to eventually defederate from Threads just for this reason alone.

            ‌ … While personally I feel that any theoretical pros are by far outweighed by cons, I do want to use this opportunity to see how much of the community disagrees with me. I am not intending to run this instance as a democracy (sorry if anybody is disappointed by that), but I would still like to have a clear picture of user feedback for potentially major decisions such as this one.

            But yeah, I support lemm.ee’s decision as well.

            • @ExploringLiteratureEnglish
              5•1 year ago

              I am not intending to run this instance as a democracy.

              Points for honesty though. Glad I have a .ee account. .world is sorta “on the way but not quite yet there” fucked.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

      already upvoted because meta can stay where it is, it doesn’t need to mix with my lemmy instance

      • megane-kunEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        I really hope lemmy.world follows suit, but given the statement lemmy.world admins made, it’s still up in the air, if ever.

        • decadentrebelMEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          Question is, what exactly constitutes as “see” in their wait-and-see approach? By the time you realize anything nefarious, it’s already too late.

          • megane-kunEnglish
            4•1 year ago

            I still stand by what I said yesterday about how Lemmy.world’s stance is a lot better than Mastodon.social’s stance. However, it’s kind of a “at least they’re not blatantly singing the praises of Meta joining the Fediverse,” which is not a terribly high bar to clear. Also, that at the very least they paid a lip service to “defederation when needed.”

            But when it really counts? I am not terribly sure Lemmy.world will actually do anything (hence, me tacking that 'if ever" part in the end). And as you’ve rightfully pointed out–even if they do something, it might already be too late.