I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.
I will be leaving if lemmy.world defederates with threads.
Just give users the ability to block instances themselves so we can be done with this.
Stop letting other people make decisions for you.
You are either blissfully ignorant of how corporations work, or you are a corporate shill.
I am still new at this. If I block threads, and lemmy.world doesn’t defederate, will threads users still see my posts and comments in the communities I participate in? Is the relationship recpricol?
If not… What incentive is there to give my (admittedly mediocre) content to a mega corp whose goal is to take over this space?
I’m genuinely asking.
Good question. I’m not sure. I still don’t even know how users can block entire instances, just communities within those instances.
blocking instances for users was added in 0.19. it works like community block: you don’t see any posts from an instance, but you can see the activity of users from that instance on any other instances where they do stuff.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869
[this is not an endorsement of deferating with any meta product. i believe in deplatforming hostile actors, which they’ve well and truly proven themselves to be.]
Don’t wait, you can leave right now.
And you’re free to do so, that’s the entire point of a decentralised system.
They aren’t making decision for anyone but themselves, again, as is the point.
If you don’t agree with whatever they do, find an instance you do agree with or start your own.
Staying or leaving has the same amount of personal agency.
I read the users can blacklist instances already, from the latest Lemmy release note.
Proof the system works right here.