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It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it's users will not be allowed to proceed.

We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.

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[–] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] toasteranimation@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] justdoit@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Every time I see a picture of him I think it has to be edited or something. He’s like a walking Snapchat filter.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Does any other human out there love smoked meats ?

Context for those out of the loop

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best part about the full smoked meats vid is when his "friends" (i.e. employees) come over. What really gets me is that the friends NEVER speak unless spoken to, because it's just a really awkward work event where Zuck has to pretend he has friends.

[–] spitz@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It made him look so gosh dang relatable.

No, that's not the word I'm looking for. Unlikeable. That's the one.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] loz@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

This could be the intro to a found footage horror film about a cannibal that smokes his victims.

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[–] wavymoney@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He always looks AI-generated

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

That's because he's an AI.

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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would like to also add this argument into the discussion, since I've seen a lot of people who are voting for federating with meta, with the argument that defederating just because we don't like someone goes against the idea of Fediverse, and interconnected network of diverse servers that is should inclusive and allows people to connect.

It's quite the contrary - allowing Meta in goes directly against the idea of Fediverse, and we should fight it as much as possible.

This is a literal quote from the main header on https://www.fediverse.to/

The fediverse is a collection of community-owned, ad-free, decentralised, and privacy-centric social networks.

Each fediverse instance is managed by a human admin. You can find fediverse instances dedicated to art, music, technology, culture, or politics.

Join the growing community and experience the web as it was meant to be.

Judging by this main selling point of the Fediverse, it sounds to me like Meta shouldn't be in the Fediverse do begin with, and every instance should defederate from them by default.

[–] burgundymyr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

100% I will only be using instances that don't federate with corporations.

[–] Beliriel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Centralisation will always set in due to sheer complacency. I mean it has already happened. The main player in the reddit-like fediverse is lemmy.world
No other instance comes close to the size of lemmy.world
I also disagree with Metas method of tracking and monetising every last bit of data (I'm trying to get rid of their platforms myself) but to expect the fediverse to be a balanced mixture of access points is just daydreaming.

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[–] random_prime@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

A welcome move. F**k megacorps polluting everything on internet.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So... you're not gonna try Threads then???

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[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for saving us lemmy.ml Admins.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

o7. We're out here for yall, and we're gonna make sure the fediverse stays inoculated from threats.

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[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta.

When the typo is more accurate than what was intended to be written.

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[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

whats the threat here huh?

[–] McJonalds@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

content bad i leave

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[–] DAC_Protogen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I would say we need a vote if lemmy.world should do the same. I would be for blocking meta.

[–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I hope Lemmy.world does the same.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm moving if they don't.

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[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Amen! I made a longer post explaining my reasoning for blocking Threads and the decision took only 15 minutes.

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[–] TiredNerdDad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whenever I see Zuck I think of this song "Is Mark Zuckerberg a Ghost" by Nap Eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq2YhOY55zU

Also, this is the right move. Facebook/Meta only wants to harvest our data and profit off it.

[–] corvus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Haha... I wasn't wrong when choosing lemmy.ml as my lemmy server 😉

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you Lemmy.ml Meta can F off.

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[–] Lermatroid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Gonna go against the grain here a little bit, but why? If they are federated, it will mean that you can move off of threads more easily to other servers and not get locked into a walled garden. Encouraging companies to embrace federation will avoid the shit shows like we've seen at twitter and reddit, since users will be easily able to jump ship without much loss. Additionally, apps like threads make federated platforms much more approachable to newcomers and those who do not even know what the fediverse is.

I'd love someone to explain it to me, but this feels like a massive footgun.

[–] EdgeOfToday@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I agree, threads connecting to the fediverse seems like it would be a positive step for everyone. I'm not sure how meta could kill the fediverse as long as independent servers exist. If meta is flooding the fediverse with spam or other influencer bs, then we can all just defederate.

I have an alternate theory that threads is never planning to support the fediverse. They are trying to attract users who are looking for a Twitter alternative, and right now the most compelling option is mastodon. But if threads announces activitypub support, then some would-be mastodon users might join threads instead, thinking it will all be connected. But if threads ends up winning all those users anyways, then they'll just say fuck it, we don't need activitypub.

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[–] samideano@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to preemptively block threats / Meta

The only sane approach to this "dilemma". Thank you for keeping the instance free of "threats" (I see what you did there)

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

It's quite the dilemmy

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