I've gotten so tired of the non-stop reddit/lemmy/mastodon/threads drama I pulled the plug on all recurring donations for the foreseeable future. Thanks to threads the fedverse is starting the reddit style drama cycles and I'm pretty much over trying to sort through it.

I know I can block content, my concern is my refusal to donate to an outfit that supports meta or similar properties.

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[–] autumn@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Threads hasn't even implemented ActivityPub yet, and there's no guarantee it will do so in the future. Or even that it will implement it in a way that links with lemmy.

I personally haven't seen a post from lemmy.world admins pledging to block threads. Even if you do, take it with a grain of salt.

I've personally blocked communities and users that talk about reddit/threads all the time. It's cool that they have a space to do it, I'm just not super into those topics right now and can always unblock them later.

[–] downpunxx@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

^ blocked this fuckin guy

[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Deleted my first post, as I'm confusing myself. No official post has been on lemmy.world regarding the upcoming fiasco. However, the mastodon.world account on Mastodon has stated that they will NOT be defederating, and will take a "wait and see" stance.

https://mastodon.world/@mwadmin/110654590632768079

Bear in mind that mastodon.world is hosted and administered by the same person as lemmy.world. They didn't specifically say that lemmy.world will have the same standpoint, but I hope not. Even though I am very new to the Fediverse, I already view the .world servers as a home, and I would hate to leave. I do believe that Meta is a known bad actor. EDITED: I'm torn over the whole thing, but I know I want nothing to do with Meta.

[–] TheBenCrazy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

No post has been made that I know of. Mastodon's CEO laid out his stance in the post below and I would hope Lemmy would follow with them.

Lots of echo chambering going on in here about EEE and Meta profiting off of everything. In reality, they can scrape data like anyone else, the profit from such small communities is negligible, and defederating meta would only hurt those that defederated because way more users than people here think will want to see and manage Threads while also not needing a Threads account to avoid the data hell that it is.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

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

Facebook can bootstrap their product with federated content made by users who are in the fediverse because they don’t want to support a company like Facebook. By not defederating, you would be helping Facebook every time you post a comment or make a post because you would be giving Facebook free content to further their for-profit goals.

Edit: they’ll also probably be taking fediverse content and displaying it with ads to monitize the content you all made.

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

The worry about EEE is actually not my primary concern at the moment. And it's not data collection either, though I hate what Meta is doing there.

I'm not interested in Threads "content" on my front page here. And boy will it ever be all over the "All" page thanks to Threads users outnumbering all of the Fediverse by many magnitudes. The poor algorithm is not going to show you any new Lemmy content anymore with all the engagement Threads posts is going to get.

Then there are the comments in communities here. If you've felt happy that this community has better atmosphere and discussions than the dreg you'd be served on Reddit, just wait until we open the door for hundreds of millions of Facebook commenters.

I love the community that is building on Lemmy. If I wanted to participate in the community on Meta I'd be on Instagram or Facebook or Threads.

But I don't. That's why I'm here.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure Facebook's parent company Meta can scrape the content already because it's public but without federating their users cant bring in their toxic Instagram mentality into our places.

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Lmao at you complaining about toxicity when you're toxically judging and gatekeeping 2 Billion people.

[–] Parastie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it makes more sense letting individuals block what they want instead of at the server level. If you don't want Meta trash, just preemptively block it.