For the health of Lemmy and the fediverse I really hope that a license banning for profit use of federated and user content can be created and used by all instances.

We must prevent poisoning of the fediverse by corporations at all cost.

I think if we federate with Facebook, it will be good for a while. they will play nice while they grow their userbase. but as soon as they have a majorety of users, they will start pushing updates that make facebooks instance(s) incomparable with other regular instances and since most users will be on Facebook, the rest of Lemmy and the fediverse will die. this type of thing has happened before and if we allow it to, it will happen again. we cannot federate with corporations

I’m interested to hear more on this as well. While I’m not completely opposed to larger integrations, I’m doubtful that they will have the best interests of ActivityPub and the fediverse at heart.

Defederate them. I don’t believe they are coming into the fediverse with any good intentions.

We must keep them out of the fediverse. It’s another case of the good old “embrace, extend, extinguish”. Read more about how Google killed XMPP, for a good example: How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

This was posted on mastodon.world, also ran by Ruud [email protected] - Update regarding Meta/Threads:

We hear that the Threads app is coming July 6th. It will at first not support ActivityPub, so it can’t talk to Mastodon yet. That will be added later.

We’re very much in agreement with @tchambers , see timothychambers.net/…/instagram-threads-and.html As he said: ““Watching Like A hawk, with our fingers on the block button.” We will NOT be pre-emptively taking a “Fediblock as a Frist Strike” position.”

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you are not me and your experiences will vary but i didn’t get out of that hypercapitalist hellscape of facebook just so that facebook comes to a little place not yet squeezed dry of value by musks and thiels of this world. i see no point in federating with them in first place, so blocking them from get go seems to be the better way

Meta is paid to spread disinformation. Why would anyone want them on the Fediverse? They're literally the reason for Brexit, for example.

I truly think that welcoming corporate interests into the fediverse is very much counter to everything that I find compelling about it. Once meta carves out a seat at the table the dream of a digital commons operated by and for the community is dead.

Can the admins of Lemmy.world please make your position known on this important issue. Other popular instance have already announced that they will not federate with meta.

Please let your users know where you stand. I am a new user however I am not interested in being exposed in anyway to that corporation.

If you federate with meta I will close my a count and leave. I would like to know as soon as possible.

Thank you.

So basically until Threads we where alone in our little corner of the internet. Reddit is slowly dying, Twitter is slowly dying, new people are comming. Everything is working great.

Meta is now comming to infest and milk the Fediverse and somehow we must let them in our house, in our instances. Why?