I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Would email be better if you couldn't send/receive emails from people with Gmail accounts?

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It would objectively be more secure in terms of data privacy.

Better, in that regard, is subjective. It sure wouldn't be more convenient, but that's why we left Reddit and came to Lemmy in the first place. It sure wasn't because of convenience.

[–] beetus@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

objectively be more secure in terms of data privacy

Please elaborate how email would be objectively more secure if you could block Gmail.

You can already block Gmail today from any other provider by putting a filter on incoming @gmail addresses. How does that make email more secure?

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah I'm not going to criticize anyone for not liking Google. Google's done plenty to sour people on them. But this is just the height of ignorant flailing.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If everybody decided to ditch gmail and never email someone using that hose, email would without a doubt become much better overnight. It would be feasible for me to host my own e-mail server again.

Would the fediverse be better if you couldn't host your own instance but had to use Google or Facebook to access it?

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is the real world and people won't "just ditch gmail".

[–] explodicle@local106.com 3 points 11 months ago

Wait wait wait. This is the real world?

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Right, but we have a chance here to keep things fragmented as opposed to coalesced around Facebook