It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it’s users will not be allowed to proceed.

We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.

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    1 year ago

    If Meta can federate with an instance, it can collect all the available data within that instance. This seems to be what everyone is overlooking on the downsides of Meta federation.

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      1 year ago

      Which is public data, you don’t need to run an instance to have it. What am I missing?

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        1 year ago

        As for me this is what I can’t follow too, i understand that fackbook cant be trusted, and the federation is based on trust between instance admins to not do something fuckey.

        So our data and rights (my country was victim of CA) are unsafe when federated with threads, these are what people are saying.

        what is stopping facebook from creating a dummy instance, not disclose it is theirs, and federate with the instances that rejected the known threads instances?

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      1 year ago

      exactly nobody is overlooking that, although some people may be unaware of it.

      for the sake of the person to whom I was replying, I could be accused of oversimplifying the issue, perhaps. I’ve added a clarifying edit to my original comment.