Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook

https://programming.dev/post/471931

While I support this move, I do want to point out that federated social media sites are inherently open.

We criticized Twitter for removing content access for search engines and other scraping tools. At the same time, some have called the Fediverse a privacy nightmare. We can’t have our cake and eat it too. Sites like Lemmy are by design open to participation from anyone, including questionable companies. People who don’t like that are probably better off on closed-off social media.

The fediverse is a privacy nightmare – Café Lob-On

Yea agree, not a fan of “Meta”. But I think limiting who can use federated networks kinda goes against the federated nature of such networks. What’s next, we’ll have a centralized blacklist of lemmy instances.
It’s also ineffective. If Meta wants the data, they don’t need federation. They can simply crawl the web.