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lemmy.world has bent the knee to corporations. Consolidated comments into body. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

While I agreed those who do not want federation with Threads should leave (me included), lemmy.world has not bent any knee. The admin is taking a wait and see approach, and willing to block if it turns out bad

migrating instances in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did it migrate all your posts/comments/saved items? It looks like just subscriptions

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Questions on the openness of Meta’s Threads (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They seems to really embrace open social media. I have a couple of questions to see what their true intension is. It is assumed that they would federate with fediverse soon (plenty of reports of that already)

Would they support 3rd party apps to browse their contents without ads/tracking? I do not mind paying if true
If I do not agree with how they moderate/treat users, can I move somewhere else (aka another Threads instance)? Can another Threads instance even be set up independently or they are the only player
Would they contribute their improvements on Threads to ActivityPub (after thorough community review of course)?
What contributions have they made so far to fediverse?

All I want to see is if they should be considered a member of the fediverse and play by the rules that all other members follow. the answer would make the decision around federation/defederation easy

Edit:typo and added the last paragraph

Why Defederating from Facebook/Meta is So Important in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are under the hood data that is not displayed on the site which they can scrap. FB would be broke if they only rely on the FB posts alone without all the tracking everywhere. Even your movement on the screen or where you pause on the page are tracked.

So no they dont get all the data unless we federate them.

A better list of Mastodon servers that have pre-emptively defederated from Threads.net in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Lovely resource to help people decide for themselves

Businesses, celebrities & influencers on Threads should operate their own instances, independent from Meta. Get enough of them to do this and Meta can't hold a monopoly. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

At least governments/any essential services around the world should

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Lemmy.world’s position on Meta’s newly launched Threads (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First of all, a big thank you to @[email protected] and team for building such a good place for us to hang out. You guys rock!

I am interested to see your opinion on the recently launched Threads from meta, specially around possible federation/defederation in the future

Some instance owners are open to federation, some takes wait and see approach, while some will block them outright as seen on https://fedipact.online/

Why I probably won't defederate from Threads in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Its your choice as instance owner to do that

Visit https://fedipact.online/ to see a list of instance owners who will defederate their instance from Threads

Heads up: its a long list

Why I probably won't defederate from Threads in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thats the nice thing about fediverse. People with different opinions can co-exist and they have freedom to choose what they want

Big enough is nice but I’d rather have a small community without anything to do with the big tech.

Mastodon's Founder & CEO Gives His Thoughts on Meta's Threads in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I doubt people joining small instances would miss any content from FB/Instagram/Threads/Twitter

The content on reddit is huge but I cut the tie and happier with Lemmy.

No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

There are certain apps I must use, for example banking or Notion. I can already block them from using location/contacts/photos…

I just wanted to see if other like browsing history/purchase history can be blocked

As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hopefully something similar will be developed for lemmy

No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

it will collect a wide variety of data from users, including health, financial information, browsing histories, location, purchases, contacts, search history and sensitive information.

How do you block an app from accessing browsing/search history/purchase?

Lemmy Apps Directory - Discover and Explore Lemmy Clients in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Post with text AND link does not show link in Memmy at the moment. It has been reported here https://lemmy.world/post/1022041