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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[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

allowing them to hoover up our data

Hate to break it to you, but the fediverse is public. Most instances don't even require an account for read-only access. If Facebook wants your data they don't need to federate to get it.

[–] muddybulldog@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Don’t even need that. Fifteen minutes To set up your own instance. The entirety of Lemmy still fits on a decent thumb drive.

[–] JonEFive@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

And realistically, there's nothing stopping them from setting up a bunch of nondescript shell instances to gather data anyway.