1y ago

Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook

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Lemmy.ml has now blocked Threads.net

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I'm on the fence here. Luckily, at least, I think community/subreddit-based sites like Lemmy/Reddit don't have "network effects" that are as "sticky" as Mastodon/Twitter, because with Lemmy/Reddit you don't need to build up a follower list to start getting value. You just join the community and it's as if you immediately "followed" a bunch of people who share your interests. You don't even need to make an account - you can just bookmark a community and lurk, and maybe you eventually make an account to start interacting. It's a great "on-ramp" - very low barrier to entry/usefulness.
I think that's why Lemmy was able to take off so fast. It relies on community-level coordination, rather than every individual user having to make their own choice to switch, and try to get all their followers/followees to switch. So even if Meta did add a community-style mode, I don't think it'd eat into the Lemmy userbase. It is hard to be sure though, and I respect the choices of those instances that have blocked/defederated.
Mastodon admins have a harder decision to make I think - there's an opportunity to get very quick growth by effectively adding a lot more followable users/content. A bunch of people don't like Meta/Facebook, but want to follow their friends, and so they may use Mastodon to do that, which could get a lot more people to move to "real" fediverse apps/sites like Mastodon. I know a lot of people that are on Threads now, and I'm looking forward to being able to follow them from Mastodon, rather than being forced to get Threads to keep up to date with what they're working on.
- No fences up my ass here, I didn't jump so quickly to lemmy to be immediately joined to fucken Facebook. Like. At all. I'd bet a quick poll would speak loudly
  
  Fuck Facebook, and fuck anyone that argues on their behalf.
  
  I'm using Connect for Lemmy. And it has a function to add a tag or flare.
  I'm tagging people who shill for meta, so that they will be forever recognized by the app as a meta removed.
  
  I hate to say this opinion would be minority even on Lemmy. People value convenience over anything else
  
  I dont think you've taken into account what people in lemmy value the most.
  Their principles. They mostly joined lemmy because one of their principle is against big corp controlling us for their own purpose.
  That's why threads is being blocked preemptively. Because they are corpo. Now compare that to exploding heads instance. The slowness of blocking another instance because of hate speech and bigotry. It's because exploding heads issue does not or barely touched most lemmy peoples principle trigger. They allowed it to exist first for a long time before even considering of blocking it
  
  for real, i'm not here because of convenience. it's pretty inconvenient, actually.
  i willingly give enough away to corporate overlords as it is... this is one of the occasions where i choose to not... despite the inconvenience.
  
  Defeding breaks Fediverse principles. People who want to defed meta don't belong here.
  
  I tagged you as "meta shill". Now whenever I see your post I'll know you work for meta.
  Thanks for revealing yourself.
  
  even Lemmy
  Do you even hear yourself? You're commenting this over a post on the second biggest instance banning Threads?
- I seriously doubt this is a good faith effort by meta to be a part of the fediverse. Give this article a read. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
  
  UPDATE: Those rumours have been confirmed as at least one Mastodon admin, kev, from fosstodon.org, has been contacted to take part in an off-the-record meeting with Meta. He had the best possible reaction: he refused politely and, most importantly, published the email to be transparent with its users. Thanks kev!
  kev should've accepted the meeting to see if they could infer the intent...
  
  "Off the record" largely implies that an NDA would be involved, considering "confidential information that should not be shared with others."

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