It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it’s users will not be allowed to proceed.
We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.
Joined a few Lemmy instances, but the admin team taking actions like these might make lemmy.ml my main place to go. Anything corporate is irredeemable.
Thank you Lemmy.ml Meta can F off.
All the way off!
Lemmy developers, thank you!
They really put the meta in metastasize!
This is brilliant!
YOUR MOVE LEMMY.WORLD
Good riddance to Meta’s bullshit. Stop them before they get to the first E in EEE.
Here’s a sign to put up at the border between Lemmy.ml and Threads, which will surely have a 100-meter wall built on it with 50 kV electric fences, barbed wire, watchtowers, snipers, and whatever to keep those Meta corporate fuckers out.
Threads Quarantine Zone sign
This is the kind of thing that made me choose this instance in the first place. Thanks for making my online social place of choice feel safe.
I’m out of the loop what is going on?
Awesome.
Excellent news. I would have moved to another instance that did block if .ml didn’t block them. Thank you for this lemmy.ml
Thank you for your integrity and ethics. This action sends a strong message to the capitalist leeches where we stand.
Thank you!
I don’t understand this logic. Don’t we want Lemmy to be more mainstream and user friendly? Preemptively blocking any mainstream attempt to connect and bring in more users just sounds slightly petulant to me. Like I get meta = shitty company but I don’t get why we shouldn’t encourage more people joining the fediverse. And getting external help in growing it. And threads was the first mainstream olive branch that showed Lemmy, Kbin, and mastodon has legitimacy worth building infrastructure to join.
Idk blocking other people categorically from connecting just seems antithetical to the idea that it should be a decentralized system free to all to join.
But I’m new here, so maybe Im mistaken on the ethos of Lemmy.
We want new users, but not any random users at any costs.
I’d rather see the community growing slowly but organically than adding a bunch of random people with a toxic Instagram logic.
We don’t have to be 10s of millions to enjoy it here either.
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This is an excellent read on the idea.
https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376
In a nutshell “Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty.”
I agree. But not everyone on that app are people who share greedy and hurtful ideas. Thats just extreme generalization imho.
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Just feel’s antithetical to FOSS and decentralized social media. I came to Lemmy because a corporate douche was ruining Reddit because management and users had different ideas about what is and isn’t acceptable uses of that platform. Lemmy throwing up a big ol firewall because someone does it differently to them just isn’t what I expected to find here. Maybe that’s my fault. But Lemmy has a content and user drought. And I’m okay with that as long as it’s showing growth. I mean it takes a long time to build up content and communities.
But with beehaw defederating everyone they don’t like and the official Lemmy devs now basically doing the same thing to threads when the fediverse finally starts to go mainstream and attracting a wealth of new users just leaves a “throw the baby out with the bath water” impression on me.
But it seems like I’m the oddball one out here judging by the downvotes and overall negative responses from Lemmy-ers but it’s just my perspective.
I came to Lemmy because a corporate douche was ruining Reddit
And now you want corporate douches to have a foothold here?! C’mon man, figure it out.
Yeah and it’s not just any corporate douche, but like the end boss of all corporate douches.
Exactly, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here. Why did people even create accounts here if not to be free from corporate enshitification?!
The fediverse is a space built to escape these corporate profit machines. So you’re ok with them invading that space?
Federating with Threads might help the fediverse grow, but Threads has the ability to become the largest instance within it. Then they’ll be the ones to defederate from us. After that happens the fediverse will be worse off than if they never joined.
The fediverse is a threat to corporate run social media. Threads joining the fediverse is step one of their inside job to bring it down.
Organic growth is good. Growth for the sake of growth makes no sense outside an environment where you need those metrics to convince investors.
I would also contend that it’s good for creating more content for people to consume. Lemmy desperately needs more content to be able to provide a compelling experience for most people to put up with the cumbersome nature and awkward aspects of the fediverse.
might be okay. trust people to filter them from feeds unless blatant exploitation spam. then bye bye any improvements they might offer is probably open sourced through use of fedi libs. devs copy code all the time
whats the threat here huh?
content bad i leave
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based
Amen! I made a longer post explaining my reasoning for blocking Threads and the decision took only 15 minutes.
Congrats on being based as well! I’m not on your server, but thanks for looking out for your users.
