• deleted@lemmy.world
    151·
    2 years ago

    I’d delete my account and join an instance that would defederate from corporations

  • nefonous@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 years ago

    Can somebody explain me exactly how defederating them would give us a different outcome?

    I’m genuinely curious.

    Meta couldn’t give less fucks about 100k users on lemmy, they are targeting people that isn’t and will never use nor understand what the fediverse is.

    You keep them out, good. They don’t care, they just want to fill their own bucket with stuff that is outside anyway

    Twitter people going to threads is completely independent from anything in the fediverse. Those people won’t even notice any difference if they are federated or not.

    They are in for the brand and the fomo, not the content

    • tookmyname@lemmy.ml
      11·
      2 years ago

      Defederation isn’t about punishing them. It’s about keeping their garbage off this platform, and keeping it separate.

      • nefonous@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        That’s good, but people are proposing it as a defense against an eventual EEE, that’s what I don’t get

    • quixotic120@lemmy.world
      17·
      2 years ago

      If meta pushes this it will be to brand themselves with decentralized social media. The average person will associate the concept with meta and assume it was a meta invention. This may be a long play by meta to get in front of things like mastodon/lemmy/kbin/etc and become an established player in the space to the laymen before the actual established players can do so

      It’s a gross misuse of their obscene power bordering on monopoly and hardly a good thing. Even if the above isn’t true they will 100% use it to harvest as much data as humanly possible without consent and tons more if you’re stupid enough to give them consent. They will tune algorithms to feed people rage bait and stupid bullshit to drive engagement at all costs. And they’ll load it with intrusive targeted advertising

      Fuck meta

  • GVasco@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    2 years ago

    Moved to Fediverse to get away from the data hoarding and selling that those types of companies partake in. Really hope most instances will defederate from threads and prevent Meta from collecting more data.