In an ideal world people realize they can escape the ads and data collection without losing touch
Meta will not allow this to happen, and if/when it does, they will take action. This shit is a zero sum game to these people.
Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months agoI think the conversation should be about the impact of federating with an “instance” with a long history of poor or apathetic moderation vs. creating an off-boarding system for Meta users to escape the corporatocracy.
Personally I vote for the latter, and I’m glad most of the larger instances are in the same boat.
prole@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
They may not have a choice
chitak166@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No, I don’t think the conversation should be about the impact of federating with an instance.
If we want to see it, great. If we don’t, also great. But we should have the power to decide for ourselves instead of some biased admins.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
we should have the power to decide for ourselves instead of some biased admins.
So admins shouldn’t defederate from any instances at all? Even right wing Nazi instances with Nazi flags in every profile?
The only people who disagree with this are those who want to control what other people get to see.
Yes, they want to protect their users from harmful instances. This is something the people who join those instances want.
They also want to “deplatform” those types from society as a whole.
chitak166@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So admins shouldn’t defederate from any instances at all? Even right wing Nazi instances with Nazi flags in every profile?
Users should have the power to defederate in addition to admins.
This is something the people who join those instances want.
Not everyone wants the same thing or has the same idea of what constitutes ‘harmful’ instances.
They also want to “deplatform” those types from society as a whole.
Yes, this is why it’s important to take individual control away from the user; to push an agenda.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Users should have the power to defederate in addition to admins.
They do.
Not everyone wants the same thing or has the same idea of what constitutes ‘harmful’ instances.
That’s why I didn’t say “everyone”. I said “people who join those instances”. If you don’t want that, you can choose our migrate to a different one. Or even create your own.
Yes, this is why it’s important to take individual control away from the user; to push an agenda.
You’re correct, of course, but “agendas” are not inherently negative.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 9 months ago
If you think Meta will allow the Threads algorithm to show anything from the fediverse you are unbelievably naive. And that’s if content from the fediverse even makes a blip on a platform with 100x the size.
Meta doesn’t federate with the goal of giving Threads users an out. They federate because it’s the most efficient way to scrape fediverse instances and build profiles on fediverse users.
Meta has reached saturation with their existing services so they are now branching into any possible extra source of data they can. They’ll take anything, from fediverse federation to Whatsapp emails. All your data is welcome to them.
donio@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s not true. Quietly scraping is much easier to implement than integrating AP into your platform.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
They don’t need to show you anything in the algorithm.
As for data, that’s complete non-sense. What data do you think they’re getting access to that they can’t already get? If the goal was to trove data they would have done it quietly and not announced it so that everyone could block them before they even had a chance.
They’re federating because of the Digital Markets Act.