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FMHY and Meta (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I spent ~2 seconds looking for a post on this topic, and didn't see one, so if I missed it, that's on me.

A lot of people seem to be up in arms about Meta moving into the fediverse via a rumored twitter competitor called "Project 92". Obviously, this is more of a problem for mastodon than Lemmy, but since everything is connected here, it seems worth addressing.

So what is the FMHY position on this whole thing?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My take is that they we shouldn't allow them to get close to the fediverse because there's no way that they are doing this for good of the users. I will go as far as saying that we shouldn't federate with them. I'm probably a minority with that take.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I might not even be from this instance, but I do agree that this probably will just bring spam to Lemmy and that federating with them would probably be detrimental.

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

If nothing else, I tend to agree with one of the arguments that an instance made recently: "meta federating will bring in billions of users and we will not be able to moderate it when it touches our instance"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That sounds pretty reasonable, and although I do think that you inherently need quite a few users for something like Lemmy to work, you don't really need that many, so federating with them would really only cause problems.

If someone from an unfederated instance wanted to access this community, they could just create an account on it or a federated instance; it's not like it's uncommon to make alts (or new accounts in general). Overall I just think it would lead to more spam content and moderation issues on FMHY.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm willing to see what it looks like, but I'd support defederation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They're known for spying on you and I'm willing to bet my head that that's what they will do, it's facebook and it will always be facebook, no matter the name or platform.

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

Yeah, I know, but it's possible it could drive more users to the fediverse- for example, if they federate, then try to monetize their platform in such a way that users drift away to other instances to avoid ads or what-have-you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We don't need to federate with them for them to make fediverse more known and attract users to us. That's what I think at least.