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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] 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