• Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
    510·
    1 year ago

    Not really, censorship isn’t the solution.

    Edit: I just woke up when I wrote the original comment and I can see that it’s not the clearest piece of text I’ve ever produced. What I meant is that I fully agree with defederating (and I’ll do it on my instance), but I don’t think censoring Meta in the core technology (ActivityPub) is the way to go.

    • Duży Szef [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
      14·
      1 year ago

      It literally is, do you not see the power dynamics here? If the fediverse is to defend itself it must at all cost not federate with Meta or we will end up like XMPP.

      • Reclipse@lemdro.id
        31·
        1 year ago

        Meta doesn’t need Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon. They are competing with Twitter. Threads will probably have more users than the whole fediverse combined within the first few days.

        • Duży Szef [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
          5·
          1 year ago

          That’s known, but it’s foolish to think that for example Mastodon isn’t seen as a Twitter alternative. Meta knows that and I think they want to not just be a corporate alternative to twitter, they want to make sure they are the alternative to twitter. The Fediverse has to take measures defending itself or Threads will overtake and stomp over everything, even if the sudden user surge might be appealing to some.

          • Reclipse@lemdro.id
            21·
            1 year ago

            The measure taken should not be outright defederation. But ofcourse that is upto the instance admins.

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        I agree with that.

        I disagree with this part:

        They should put a hard-coded Meta blocker into activityhub

        Though I can see that my comment might seem very misleading (in my defense, I just woke up when I wrote it).

          • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            Changeable definitely, would have to think about whether default block is the smart thing to do. It’s hard, I really dislike Meta, but on the other hand if you go censoring instances by default, where does it stop?

            IMO this should be the job of articles that tell you how to setup Lemmy, mentioning something like “Note that by default you also allow Meta the access to your instance which might mean privacy breach, here’s how you disable it.”

            • Duży Szef [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              21·
              1 year ago

              Many admins are lazy, and they expect their software to run well on sensible defaults, most won’t care and just go with whatever the devs consider to be fine. By choosing wether Meta is blocked or not by default the fediverse will have to take a stance.

              Do we allow extremely powerful corporations that want to monopolize their influence but we get a user surge in the short term.

              Or do we block them by default and anyone making an instance should make the concious choice to join the corpo-verse themselves so we can continue to foster a healthier alternative to whatever they are cooking.

              I’d rather have the latter.