Indeed, the entire point is that instances should decide for themselves – I say it multiple times in the article and I say it in the excerpt. If they think that you federating with Meta puts them at risk, then they should defederate. And yes, it says more about the instances making the decisions than it does about Meta – Meta’s hosting hate groups and white supremacists whether or not people defederate or transitively defederate.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 months ago
Yeah, strong arming instances to do something or another based on a personal preference I thought was meta’s job, not the fediverses.
The entire point is that each instance should decide for themselves. If they want to defederate with me because I haven’t made up my mind yet, then so long I guess, to me that says more about them then it does Meta.
thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
fishos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Aren’t you from that instance that threw a tantrum recently and threatened to defed the programming instance because of a personal beef between the admins that was quickly resolved and only resulted in creating a bunch of needless drama?
The above OP is right, it really says more about the servers advocating these things than Meta. Stop wallowing in the mud and just be better than them. Lead by example, not whatever this petty squabble is.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 months ago
Thanks for getting what I was saying.
I’m giving meta a 3 strike rule for my instance. Yes, I will probably eventually defederate with them - but I’m not going to immediately do it now. Yes, they’re a horrible company, horrible ethics, and I hate them. However, I’m not going to be one who just blocks them prematurely, they can prove themselves why they’re terrible to me. I’ll probably get overwhelmed with moderating and just cut it then.
fishos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thank you for fighting the good fight. That’s the proper way to do it.
sour@kbin.social 5 months ago
anyone can be better than company that experimented on teenagers
sour@kbin.social 5 months ago
because not talking to instances is strong arming
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balancedchaos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As long as Meta can’t infect the rest of the fediverse, or track or monetize it…fine. I just never, ever want Meta shit on my timeline.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Meta doesn’t need federation to track or monetize anything.
You can personally block them. You don’t have to tell your admin to defederate the entire instance or defederate from other instances who choose not to.
sour@kbin.social 5 months ago
you can personally block truth.social
kariboka@bolha.forum 5 months ago
What is it? Doesn’t load.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 months ago
How would Meta “infect” anything? Do you really think Meta is producing self-replicating things that jump from person to person?