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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LazyBane 88 points 3 years ago

Ideologically, de-federating an instance just because you don't like the guy running it would be a bad thing, but Facebook/Meta has been just so toxic to the internet as a whole it's hard to really find fault with it.

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WiseassWolfOfYoitsu 39 points 3 years ago

My concern is less Suckerburg as much as Meta's corporate history. My expectation is that they'll try to use this to conquer and destroy Lemmy.

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lagomorphlecture 34 points 3 years ago

Ideologically, I find more fault in inviting meta to the playground than locking them out. They are the very definition of an evil corporation and no good can come of it.

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jaaval 4 points 3 years ago

Pragmatically, twitter style system requires a large networked userbase to be useful for most of the population, otherwise people are tooting into the void in mastodon. So even if I have to work with some soulless corporations to get there I think it's a net positive. For lemmy i don't think threads matters much.

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Lifter 25 points 3 years ago

I thought the whole ideology of the fediverse was to get away from corporationl influence. So I'd say this is very much true to the ideology as well.

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paintbucketholder 24 points 3 years ago

Yup.

Facebook has been around for almost two decades.

This is not some unknown guy - we know exactly what Facebook's business strategy and ethical and moral conduct looks like.

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