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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[–] yuki2501@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If that were the only argument I might consider your point, but there's also the point of troll farms. You can easily identify a third party troll farm fedi instance, but Zuckerberg will keep them anonymous as long as they keep paying him. Are you not aware of the amount of shills and trolls we got on reddit advocating for:

Russia
Conservative republicans
Conspiracy theories
Corporations such as Monsanto

I'm not fucking kidding, if you paid ANY attention to what happened to Reddit in the years after Spez took control, you'd realize that amplifying voices funded by corporate or foreign government money is bad for fucking everyone.

Facebook has shown, time after time, that they don't give a shit about actual free speech, democracy, human rights or even complying with the law.

Why do you keep treating them as if they were only a social network? Have you been living under a fucking rock?

If you like corporate social networks so much, go back to reddit.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I still prefer blocking it myself and having the control myself.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Well on Lemmy it's fake control considering this system wasn't really designed to safeguard against malicious actors but rather to stop snowflakes from being offended.

Also the instance blocking feature doesn't even block users, which you and everyone else suggesting people use it would know if you even read the changelog for 0.19 and saw this little qualifier right here:

Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.

If you want real control yourself what you need is your own Lemmy instance, or to co-operate a Lemmy instance with somebody else.