ruffslSecond largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook
AccidentalLemmingWhile 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.
WardPearceYea 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.
CataclysmZAMeta’s decision to work towards federation does need to be taken with a lot of salt. Corporations using open platforms or open source to make their money has always resulted in power imbalances that, left unchecked, may become impossible to solve without concessions from said corporation, or else [X] thing just gets hung out to dry.
You have to hope the people running that company understand that these problems exist, and actively work against ruining everything for everyone else that relies on it.