Someone is really out to get lemmy.world lately.

I feel like with every update there is at least one attack.

We’re having fun and trying to build a positive space. And we have real potential to succeed in growing large. Can you think of a single faster way to attract trolling on the internet?

It’s a lot more likely than someone like spez taking a break from plundering his company to piss off a modest number of internet randos in some internet corner somewhere, which would barely be a drop in the bucket of his problem anyway.

The overall effect of this is so small, it almost has to be someone(s) with too much time on their hands. If they had any kind of real power, they wouldn’t be wasting their time on these chump change attacks.

Maybe it was their refusal to take a stance on Meta and Threads? The admins of .ml said it took them 2 minutes to decide to preemptively defederate. .World on the other hand came to an anti-corporate platform and publicly took a position that they would wait and see about federation with Meta.

It’s like saying “power to the people and viva revolution but we are also remaining open to licking boot depending on the circumstances.”

I do not believe that the Fediverse is an exclusively anti-corporate platform. It’s nature is open to all, even corporations, at a technical level.

Granted, many anti-corporate people came here, but that doesn’t make this a fundamently anti-corporate place. Just their specific communities.

I also doubt many serious Fediverse types are that petty and childish. That’s generally a trait of more short-sighted people. Not a lot of native trolls here, we came here in many cases to escape that behavior.

Is it so strange to think some assholes might just chase us down and bring it to us? What would you do if you were a hate-fueled asshole that wanted to watch the world burn? I’d find nice things and fuck them up, personally. That would be both fun and potentially effective.

The FOSS alternative to the big corporate controlled social media corps that swallow up smaller social media alternatives is not anti-corporate? Ok.

You must be new here. Linux runs on 90% of corporate servers. AWS runs its own version of Linux.

This means, by and large, the labor done on a volunteer basis by random internet nerds to create Linux and all its tools has unintentionally been the largest transfer of wealth created by labor from the working class to the corporate class in fucking history.

FOSS means anyone can use it for any reason. Including organizations you reasonably fucking hate using it for reasons you fucking hate.

It’s literally why in the last few years you had maintainers of open source projects sabotaging their own projects when learning what it is being used for, or trying to make “new rules” that don’t allow certain organizations to use their code (pro-tip, if they can access your code, they can use it).

Only now is the FOSS community waking up to the fact that corporations are using their open ideals to profit off of their labor very handsomely.