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notExactlyI20 ,
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I mean, that’s what already happened with Lemmingrad.

I personally don’t care what their opinions are, but funny thing is that they can defederate from pretty much all instances where they feel attacked. As long as this doesn’t change in the future with the fediverse, I’m okay with that

JeffCraig ,

The beauty of the fediverse is that the last panel can’t happen.

We control our own instances. There’s no world where admins wouldn’t defederate from any Facebook attempt to barge in.

Maybe a few larger instances sell out, but users hold the power here now. If an admin betrays our trust, we’ll just make a new instance.

doctorzeromd ,

Even more than defederating, it’s in the hands of users. If people were to flood in from somewhere with bad intentions, it would likely be from one or two servers. At that point, just block those servers/communities from your view and continue about your day

zerozaku ,

At that point, just block those servers/communities from your view and continue about your day

But what if those servers/instances are the ones which has quality communities in it and what if the users and owners of those communities refuse to migrate to new server/instance? Wouldn’t that be the same case of reddit where the user base is split and the new migrated server/instance needs building again?

ram ,

DING DING DING. Here’s Facebook’s playbook:

  1. Create close sourced ActivityPub implementation to federate with mastodon/lemmy and gain users.
  2. Offer better experience than competition via exclusive features, reliability, more communities, etc.
  3. Once enough users have been obtained, completely defederate from fediverse.
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N ,
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This is absolutely a bad outcome and I hope the pact prevents this from playing out.
However, I feel kind of ok with losing the subset of users that would accept and use a Facebook implementation of the fediverse. It directly defeats the purpose, regardless of how much better the UI/UX may be, and shows they didn’t understand it in the first place.

CorruptBuddha ,

Dude… Like…

Duuuude…

I don’t know how to phrase this, but Reddit was getting filled with… Normal people? Nongeeks? The socially adept?

I’m sooo glad to be back with silly peeps. I missed that sense of critical self awareness haha. And I’ve been able to express some controversial opinions without getting locked and banned, which is mellowing as fuck.

snek ,
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I believe reddit was simply filled with all kinds of people. There is an array of subs to choose from with different interests and activity levels. I find it silly that people on reddit consider themselves “non-normal” and “geeky”. I don’t think you’re that special.

linearchaos ,
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Beehaw did it already :)

Not that I blame them.

simple ,
@simple@lemmy.world avatar

Beehaw’s degeneration is actually temporary. They said they would like to refederate with major instances when there’s better mod tools available. The problem is they’re only 4 admins and don’t really have the capability to moderate that well right now.

assbutt ,
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they're only 4 admins and don't really have the capability to moderate that well right now

We know, they continually remind us.

cai ,

In your entire comment history, this is actually the least hostile comment you've ever made. Amazing

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