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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    Every time I see a picture of him I think it has to be edited or something. He’s like a walking Snapchat filter.

        • @[email protected]
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          The best part about the full smoked meats vid is when his “friends” (i.e. employees) come over. What really gets me is that the friends NEVER speak unless spoken to, because it’s just a really awkward work event where Zuck has to pretend he has friends.

          • spitz
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            It made him look so gosh dang relatable.

            No, that’s not the word I’m looking for. Unlikeable. That’s the one.

          • @MeetInPotatoes
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            Interesting, mine was 5 seconds long and muted.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          I don’t know about these smoking meats, but I enjoy human activities such as breathing air and walking with my leg.

        • @[email protected]
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          1110 months ago

          This could be the intro to a found footage horror film about a cannibal that smokes his victims.

      • @Famko
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        1510 months ago

        Believe it or not, but this image is also not edited

    • DessalinesOP
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      That one definitely is edited lol. Reminds me of the android from that Queen album cover

    • @wavymoney
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      2610 months ago

      He always looks AI-generated

    • @[email protected]
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      He likely has a skilled pr team that has crafted his image as unique, brilliant, and even all this alien/ lizard stuff. In general, he is simply a billionaire and for sure not have much in common with working people.

      • eeeeeb
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        the lizard thing is unfortunately just antisemitism, and older than zucc himself. the whole alien lizard people running the world bit comes from David Icke, who is very much a fascist, and was inspired directly by old school Nazi conspiracy theory texts like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

    • @quotheraven404
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      It looks like his face was stretched vertically at the middle of his nose, and someone blurred his undereye area and blended the bottoms of his eyeballs in. Disturbing stuff.

    • @null_
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      When you nut but she still Zucc-in

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    I would like to also add this argument into the discussion, since I’ve seen a lot of people who are voting for federating with meta, with the argument that defederating just because we don’t like someone goes against the idea of Fediverse, and interconnected network of diverse servers that is should inclusive and allows people to connect.

    It’s quite the contrary - allowing Meta in goes directly against the idea of Fediverse, and we should fight it as much as possible.

    This is a literal quote from the main header on https://www.fediverse.to/

    The fediverse is a collection of community-owned, ad-free, decentralised, and privacy-centric social networks.

    Each fediverse instance is managed by a human admin. You can find fediverse instances dedicated to art, music, technology, culture, or politics.

    Join the growing community and experience the web as it was meant to be.

    Judging by this main selling point of the Fediverse, it sounds to me like Meta shouldn’t be in the Fediverse do begin with, and every instance should defederate from them by default.

  • @Tenthrow
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    I hope Lemmy.world does the same.

      • @Albinoss
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        Same. I just wish there was an easy way to transfer. I just found the communities I wanted and I don’t look forward to making a new profile and adding them all again.

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          I already have an account ready to switch. It’s still early days so it should be relatively painless if it means sticking with the Lemmy instance that knows capital will only expand and ruin things in the pursuit of profit.

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      • @nostalgicgamerz
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        I’m thinking the same thing…they’re trying to avoid blowback by breaking the fedipact by just….saying nothing.

        I swear I’ll fucking leave if they don’t dederate with Meta

        • Colonel Sanders
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          I really REALLY hate to bring up Reddit since I know everyone is sick of hearing about it, but this is just like when Subreddits were determining whether or not to go dark and some of the more popular ones opted to just say or do nothing because they didn’t want to go against the grain.

          FFS I wish people would grow a pair and fight back.

      • Marxine
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        1910 months ago

        I am on lemmy.world, but the inaction of the admins there made me create an account here on .ml as soon as I saw one of the admins being basically as “naive” as Mastodon’s Rochko.

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          • Marxine
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            They’re open as it seems (since I got to register today), but the sign-up process requires you to answer a few basic questions to verify you’re not a bot or spam account.

            • @Melco
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              • Marxine
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                A couple of minutes, don’t know if I was lucky or not though. Remember to check your email if you provided it!

      • @JeffCraig
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        I posed this question to the admins a while back. How does the community officially suggest instances to defederate. How do we vote on those choices? Where is the process?

        This was during the lemmy.online thing, where that instance (which no longer exists) created a bot to basic just crawl reddit and duplicate posts to their instance. I immediately told the instance admin that they should stop and I asked the admins where the process was to submit a de-federation request.

        All I got was a bunch of BS from users about how de-federation should be something we don’t take lightly, blah blah blah, but all I was asking was where the process is. How are we even partaking in a system that’s so ripe for admin abuse?

        The lemmy.world admins aren’t malicious… they’re just in over their heads. They’ve struggled with the technical side of running the service and they haven’t built out some of the social tools that an instance this side needs. Hopefully they mature quickly.

    • MrSilkworm
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      I hope Leemy.world does the same *soon

  • DAC Protogen
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    I would say we need a vote if lemmy.world should do the same. I would be for blocking meta.

  • Sneezy McGlassface
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    8010 months ago

    People left reddit because of corporate f*ckery, and some of them are now making excuses for meta?? What kind of mental gymnastics is this?

  • @[email protected]
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    7610 months ago

    the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to preemptively block threats / Meta

    The only sane approach to this “dilemma”. Thank you for keeping the instance free of “threats” (I see what you did there)

  • Sleepless One
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    5410 months ago

    …the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta.

    When the typo is more accurate than what was intended to be written.

    • Marxine
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      810 months ago

      Congrats on being based as well! I’m not on your server, but thanks for looking out for your users.

  • @hydra
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    4710 months ago

    Thank you so much! Let’s make sure the XMPP situation never repeats ever again.