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Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Here's my not-at-all-qualified take:

Let the federation ride. If Threads users add meaningful content and activity, then cool.

But the second we see a Meta ad, pull that fucking plug. We should not be distributing their ads for free (or at all).

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captainjaneway@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah but you might have it in reverse. Meta would benefit from lemmy users providing original content. It would basically suck the life out of the smaller instances and people would have no incentive to stick with apps or instances made by the little guys. If Meta started serving ads and we pulled out, it wouldn’t mean much. By then, Meta might have adopted most users - all the whole stealing our content.

^ Super hypothetical. I’m not a federation expert. But it sounds like that could happen.

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- Encode1307@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t think lemmy and mastodon are big enough for meta to care about stealing our content.
  
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andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Let us have all users from Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon and probably Tumblr, and none from Meta. Is it so damaging to exclude them? With them comes the Meta fuckery, them dictating rules. It’s better without them.

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- Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Are you planning on signing up for a Meta account? Their rules won’t affect anyone who isn’t using their instance.
  
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  - andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s not how it works, I believe.
    
    We are as regulated as 4chan.
    
    If they get federated with other big instance, their mil+ audience wouldn’t only bring their own shenanigans, it would bring attention from regulating bodies - for one, and for two - Meta’s want for control over how fediverse is operated.
    
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  - unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I would see it as the fediverse being like the UN and Threads being like America. The UN can say whatever they want about their rules and America will and do ignore them due to their size, influence and power.
    
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fckgwrhqq2yxrkt@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Once the cats out of the bag, it won’t want to go back in.

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