Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook

3 years ago by ruffsl to c/fediverse

It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml [http://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.

Lemmy.ml has now blocked Threads.net

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iturnedintoanewt 284 points 3 years ago

How about Lemmy.World?

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necrxfagivs 268 points 3 years ago

The admins stated on Mastodon that they're not going to defederate until something happens. Knowing Meta they shouldn't give them the chance.

Here's the link: https://mastodon.world/@mwadmin/110654590632768079

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Sanctus 247 points 3 years ago

Thats unfortunate. I'll be moving instances then. Giving Meta a chance is a lot like giving a mosquito a chance to not suck your blood.

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sudo 113 points 3 years ago

"until something happens"

I suppose Metas history of actively being a bad actor working against societies best interests and enabling hate groups doesn't qualify as 'something'...

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trifictional 79 points 3 years ago

Oh, looks like I’m switching instances.

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WillardHerman 35 points 3 years ago

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gamers_Mate 14 points 3 years ago

Oh damn guess I will migrate to lemmy.ml and use that until I find out if lemmy.world defederates or not. (Edit turns out it is run by tankies and they are federated with lemmygrad.) While I may or may not stay on lemmy.world depending on if we federate with meta or not. I will no longer suggest Lemmy.ml.

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Looster 8 points 3 years ago

Is mastodon.world the same as lemmy.world?

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gravitas_deficiency 5 points 3 years ago

Is there a list of who’s blocking or not?

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Shikadi 4 points 3 years ago

Bloody hell, I literally just switched to Lemmy.world, do I really need to switch to Lemmy.ml? Come on guys

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LordDemecrius83 3 points 3 years ago

What a shame guess I'll stick to my alt over at lemm.ee for the time being

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antik 2 points 3 years ago

You can read the lemmy.world admin response here

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gornar 2 points 3 years ago

Tolerance paradox applies here too

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Jilanico 1 point 3 years ago

until something happens

What exact behaviors are they looking for that would cause them to push the block button?

Threads can do very well for themselves without the fediverse as they are already demonstrating. What real motive do they have to join the fediverse except to shut it down?

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Ilikepornaddict 1 point 3 years ago

Thanks for this, going to delete my lemmy.world account now.

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guyman -21 points 3 years ago

Heck yeah. That's a very balanced and rational approach completely unfuelled by emotions.

Can't say the same for the top comment in this thread, lol.

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tox_solid 43 points 3 years ago

Be a lot cooler if they did.

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ClopClopMcFuckwad 8 points 3 years ago

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Phegan 30 points 3 years ago

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guyman 7 points 3 years ago

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antik 13 points 3 years ago

The discussion is still on-going.

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Squiglet 4 points 3 years ago

What is there to discuss?

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gornar 1 point 3 years ago

Fair enough!

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guyman 10 points 3 years ago

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necrxfagivs 43 points 3 years ago

The problem with Meta is that they will harm the Fediverse.

I found this article interesting, written by a dev who worked with google during the XMPP EEE and was originally a XMPP dev, thinking that a big company could only mean more success for the FOSS alternative. He was wrong.

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dingus 13 points 3 years ago

Yeah I really hope they come out with the user's ability to block instances soon. Would be a great feature addition. There are a couple of instances that I take no issue with and don't want others to be blocked access too, but I really just don't want to see them in my feed.

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possum 4 points 3 years ago

If you as user block an instance that doesn't really solve the problem, Threads is still federated and getting your stuff, it's just hidden from you

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BluesBox 5 points 3 years ago

Is there any reason that they wouldn't?

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antik 2 points 3 years ago

You can read the lemmy.world admin response here

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antik 1 point 3 years ago

You can read the lemmy.world admin response here

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