I don’t think this is EEE, I think this is a chance for meta to dominate the narrative by drowning us out with algorithmically curated censorship, distractions, hatred, outrage etc. I would join threads if I want threads, I would be on Reddit if I want corporate influence.
The mastodon post for the same server admins admitting to allow Meta thanks @BrikoX and @Melco
Thanks lunar for articulating my central point better than I could.
Most of my primary content was within the comment section scattered so I’ll try to put it up here and edit more as i go. I was worried I’d butcher things so I avoided updating my post. Ignore the mess
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EEE - I don’t want to talk specifically about this. Many others are, and you can talk with them about it.
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Privacy - My views on privacy is that lemmy is already fully public and facebook merging into it probably wont reduce your lemmy privacy in any meaningful way. Ignoring lemmy, your privacy is already fully breached in ways I’m not going to explain here.
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People keep making blind claims that facebook/meta can’t use their algorithms to interact with us, so i will explain. For the record I know most of this effects mastodon directly, and not so much lemmy.
Threads will be able to control what gets minimised and maximised based on whatever secret algorithms they use. These end results are known to people that want to know, it’s how our parents and grandparents, became increasingly detached from reality. If facebook/meta wants to censor their users, they will, if they want to promote hate against LGBTQs then they will. Those users will then interact with our users, slowly shifting our conversations and the overall culture of lemmy into the same cesspool that is facebook.
Secondly, the content of threads will be selected by a relatively massive userbase which will drown out our content if we stay federated. Of course that content will be optimised by their algorithm, thus influencing fediverse content.
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Now onto the principle matter. FACEBOOK IS EVIL, like genocidal evil, a propaganda arm of the empire evil. They have a heavily proven track record. “Wait and see”? There is no need to ignore facebook/metas criminal record.
The admins here should have clearly stated their intent but have been deafeningly silent. People are asking for clarification or in my case, acting because of a clear lack of action.
Other posts are talking about this and I will assume you have been reading them.
Their stance if someone is interested https://mastodon.world/@mwadmin/110654590632768079
They basically won’t do anything preemptively.
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This seems to be the part that relatively few people have read.
I knew it existed but was an idiot for not having that in the original post >_>
Hmmm… the admins said today on this post chain (at about 10a UTC) that they were going to making a blog post regarding this issue.
So hopefully more clarification will be coming. At this point they’ve heard from enough users to know that there’s pointed disagreement with federating with Threads for more than a nanosecond after they become visible.
Not saying meta isn’t evil…. but the whole point of the fediverse is that anyone can start a server. Meta isn’t going to be able to track you any better just thru federation, anyone can already scrape the data. People are too quick to defederate everything
you are replying to the wrong thread, try reading my post. See how I don’t care about your arguments(I care about your comments, just not the arguments themselves) and only care they they will control the narrative.
No meant to post here… I see you didn’t call it out but privacy is a big reason people are worried about threads. Just posting my opinion. Feeds and algorithms can be adjusted if threads is drowning others out. I don’t know how good or bad threads will be for the fediverse but I don’t think you do either. I’m fine with servers taking a wait and see approach and with servers banning. I’m worried about people being very reactionary and servers banning other servers that take a wait and see approach. That is the thing imo that could really kill the fediverse
Also you are declaring lemmy.world is dead when afaik threads won’t even be federating with lemmy, they are just federating with mastodon
Privacy is fully violated regardless of what happens here, but I can understand people worrying about it. You will find that threads still leaks in and dominates us, remember they are a very large group compared to us. We will lose our soul in this exchange, although I agree that neither of us know how bad it is. Unfortunately I’ve been watching service after service get compromised so this isn’t new to me. I think they should all preemptively defederate with threads except for oddball servers which can if they want to, I think after we know how bad it is we should defederate with instances federated with threads.
While I agreed those who do not want federation with Threads should leave (me included), lemmy.world has not bent any knee. The admin is taking a wait and see approach, and willing to block if it turns out bad
Embrace, extend, extinguish. This is what we must prevent.
They will extinguish us by watering down our uniqueness and incorporate us into them regardless of if we are in a separate unique server like lemmy.world. In the end this instance will become intellectually homogenised with meta while foaming at the mouth with standard twitter/reddit/facebook level hate and outrage over dumb stuff.
This is bullshit. Explain how it can even occur instead of just spreading FUD.
Where is the indication that lemmy.world have “bent the knee”?
mastodon.world announced they won’t block threads yet and lemmy.world has the same owner.
The fact that you ask that is exactly what i mean.
edit: The deafening silence is what i was referring to here, my post has an update about what i mean further. I should have fully explained at the time but was going into “answer everyone” overload and cheaped out.
I just read the post you linked in the op. I was against federating then changed my mind after reading the post. Their reasoning makes sense, there is no benefit from detaching now but it’s good to be cautiously optimistic with no issue with federating if there’s potential harm.
They are pushing for a system to keep threads in check, which is what is needed
it’s good to be cautiously optimistic
I vaguely remember a quote about nazis at a table.
edit: i’m implying that this instance is complicit, nothing about you personally.
Also, i totally agree with upgrading lemmy itself.
Cautiously optimistic means making sure you’re actually seeing if folks are Nazis before calling them Nazis. They’re saying let’s sit at the table and leave the table if we see Nazis.
You again have provided zero arguments as to why a wait and see approach causes any problem. If the defederate a week after Threads launches ActivityPub, what horrors would have occurred that can’t be undone? And if it’s as bad as you suggest, it’d likely be only hours after launch.
So the argument for them bending the knee is that someone on a different instance disagrees with you?
You even admitting to not reading the post when you said this. The link you added leads to a post that you then admitted to not reading til later. They haven’t bent a knee. You’re just overreacting. You’ve provided no evidence other than just “look at their history” or vague claims similar to that. Other times you just insult the person providing an actual argument. You’re a bad faith actor. You’re toxic. Are you sure you don’t belong on Threads?
I’m getting sick of these “time to leave” posts about people wanting to jump ship on each sites decision. Beehaw decided they only want peaceful severs, time to leave. Lemmy.ml was founded by communists, time to leave! Lemmy.world doesn’t instantly defederate from other instances, time to leave!
You can’t just continually shuffle the community from site it site.
While a entire community can’t convince itself to leave, the beauty of the fediverse is if you as a user want to leave it’s very easy to switch instances and get access to most of the same info you want.
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I certainly post and read. I’m happy with my instance currently, but should lemmy.one does something I don’t agree with I will have no problem switching.
It’s almost like this constant ‘call to leave’ is meta’s Trojan horse.
A way to create discourse, lower patience of users and make them question their new home away from corporate enshittification.
I just ignore posts like this, as a partially functional human I am able to form my own opinions and draw my own lines in the sand.
I agree with you. We should not kill them for not defederating immediatelly
Thank you for pointing out that this is so much worse than just EEE. Meta has a long history of social and political engineering, and deliberately creating a toxic environment that turned all of our parents and grandparents into deranged conspiracy theorists. They don’t just let hate thrive on their platform, they artificially inflate it in the name of engagement and profit.
I see no reason to assume they won’t do all of this again, and should they do it all again it’s going to impact the entire Fediverse. Even if you just stick to instances that block Meta, if you’re federating with instances that aren’t, the toxic environment Meta is likely to build will come back to you. If the majority of instances fail to block them, I can’t bear to stay here and watch what has become the internet’s most healthy and vibrant community rot from the inside.
I honestly don’t understand why this is even a debate. If even a fraction of the shit meta has pulled was done by a smaller Fediverse instance, we all wouldn’t hesitate to defederate from them.
And to those of you who justify Threads because Meta is somehow the lesser of two evils compared to Twitter, please remember that while Twitter is owned by a raging and incompetent manchild, Meta has eroded democracies and played a major role in a genocide. Don’t fucking support these murderers. Meta is more than happy to spread even more hatred and killing in the world if it boosts their profits.
Thank you so much for being the first to properly understand the threat I was trying to express. You said it so much better than I could at the time.
I think the reason we are debating is because there are already bots and bad actors working hard to change and forge opinion. I think this style of fediverse just died, but we are close to easily making a new better one.
I’m gonna need to see an argument on how Threads’ toxicity will reach places that are at least once removed. You can’t just use it as evidence when it’s not even clear it would happen. It’s like saying this community is already tainted because there are folks who also have Instagram accounts. If it’s not via people spreading the toxicity, I’m all ears to hear your reasoning. Cause it’s far from just being obvious.
What are you even arguing anyway? You’re saying defederating Threads isn’t even enough. There’s no sign they’ll even federate beyond platforms of similar concept (micro logging as opposed to link sharing/exchange).
Are you just saying by simply existing, if everyone doesn’t defederate them, the fediverse dies?
Your reply is a perfect example of how threads actions are causing toxicity in lemmy.world.
I’d argue your attacking of other people shows that Threads isn’t the reason behind people being toxic. Folks like you simply exist.
I think it’s absurd to give Meta the shadow of a benefit of the doubt. in the past, they have explicitly stated their intention to make facebook the internet. If zuck had his way, there would be exactly one website, a monolith collecting your data to more efficiently serve you ads. There is no world in which their participation in the fediverse is not self serving and a net loss for the rest of us.
What are you talking about?
How long does it take to make an announcement for the most important and simple decision one can make? The thing is, they announced quietly that they are allowing federation with threads. Interacting with threads goes against the spirit of us leaving the corporate cesspool of reddit and doesn’t even need a discussion.
and doesn’t even need a discussion.
The assumption that anti-corporate is the unanimous opinion of everyone here is false. I have and use apps from Meta. This is a topic that very much needs discussion.
I for one would appreciate federation with Meta. We can always defederate if Meta actually does something objectionable. But I see no reason to defederate before we actually know what federation with Meta looks like.
We can always defederate if Meta actually does something objectionable. But I see no reason to defederate before we actually know what federation with Meta looks like.
I don’t hate corporations out of principle like the other guy, but there’s no way this is gonna turn out well for the Fediverse. That’s just not how Meta does things.
Agree, honestly, if people haven’t figured out that mega-corporations can and will find a way to ruin a free space, you haven’t been on Earth very long.
This stance doesn’t affect the argument though. There joining that space regardless of whether they defederate now or later.
You do realise the average person here now is from exiting reddit because they did bog standard corporate things? If they aren’t aware they dislike the corporate part of reddit and like the lemmy part then… well…
The “average” person does not even know what an API is or cares. I doubt they even know what’s going on. You sure do like to make grand sweeping statements that have no basis in fact.
OP doesn’t know what an API is. They’ve shown they have effectively no idea what they’re talking about.
OP is reminding me of teenagers on trans twitter catastrophizing tiny events into an end of the world call for the stocks and gallows.
I haven’t responded to them directly cause of that. Have really wanted to but had to stop myself cause I know it’ll be fruitless
^Note: not hating on trans twitter. I’m trans. It’s just a hurt people lashing out at small things they feel they can exert some amount of control over in a world that is on fire^
Never said a thing about APIs… you shouldn’t make such grand sweeping statements.
As for the average person here, plenty of statistics say that corporate reddit shenanigans and the influx of users happened at the same time, this is simple fact. They got booted off, or chose to come here because of the corporate side of reddit. This is about as simple as simple can be Aldursil. Are you a bot? or just… ya know
Wow, now insulting. The last thing people do when they run out of ideas. Welcome to my block list.
I’d like to disagree with OP, but a lot of us did join after Reddit fucked up.
“you shouldn’t make grand sweeping statements”
Ok. You’re just a troll now aren’t you. Those are the only statements you’ve been making.
Ok, imagine if Reddit had been part of the fediverse in the way Threads is planning to be. Then, when spez needed to fuck himself, we could have migrated more easily to another instance, without losing access to Reddit.
I’m not sure about you, but that sounds like an upside to me.
I agree in spirit, but Meta is a known bad actor and wrecking ball that ran actual psyops against its own users and their networks just to see if they could make people depressed. They also engage in extensive, worldwide election interference to upend democracies. They don’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore.
This article lays out all the problems with the wait and see approach. We’ve been here before, unfortunately, and it only has a happy ending for the huge corporations looking to end us.
Edit: for those looking to get away from Mastodon’s main instances, give Fosstodon a look. Meta approached its admin with NDAs just like they did with Ruud, but refused it and published the email for openness. Here it is, by the way.
Stop being entitled and speaking for other people. The fact a discussion is occurring means it needs a discussion. You aren’t some big brained person who just knows better than anyone else. It’s clear folks disagree with you. This means your objective stance of truth is objectively wrong. It’s simply subjective opinion. So is mine. But stop providing no actual formal logic behind your claims. If you think your doing that, then I suggest actually taking a formal logic course when you reach college.
mastodon.world, owned by the same people as lemmy.world, is not immediately defederating with threads.
If anyone does decide to leave lemmy.world, do not leave the lemmyverse. Join another lemmy instance or start your own instance. Lemmy is the future. Free, open source, federated link aggregator.
You don’t need to stick with Lemmy. Kbin is just as good. I actually prefer it because they already solved the problem of allowing users to block domains.
What is the difference between lemmy and kbin? Is Kbin PHP while lemmy is rust based?
Yes. It’s nice to have choices.
I have multiple accounts and … So I am actually fine if Lemmy.world keeps Threads on. In fact I’d just be curious more than anything.
I can always just use my other account on another instance if things go bad.
All this talk of Meta is histrionics at this point until we find out if they are going to federate. Wait and see then you can decide what to do.
I’ve edited the post to show the 4 day old toot I was referencing. We already know they will federate and we already know meta and generic big multinational corps are evil. We have all the evidence we need.
You were abusive with what you said, and just because you were too lazy to fact check doesn’t mean I’m lying or the fact it isn’t known
In that very toot they literally say they will defederate as soon as there is any reason for it, and they will be watching for such reasons.
Mate, if the word “histrionics” is abusive, wait till you see the rest of the internet.
The toot that was made before launch? That toot? The toot that referenced they have their finger over the button to defederate? That toot? The toot that you didn’t bother actually reading?
I believe the approach described in https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/07/03/instagram-threads-and.html is much more pragmatic than “Meta is bad, Threads will corrupt us” argument and I honestly believe that fighting among fedi instances would be the first win of EEE strategy. Meta IS bad, federation with Threads may be an opportunity, fighting before even watching and assessing the situation is wrong imho. “Watching Like a Hawk, with our Fingers Over the Block Button.”
We don’t have to wait and see? Meta has a proven history.
His write up doesn’t cover the issue my post is about, but it does cover a fair bit. I also worry about fracturing the community but see it differently. If everyone rejected meta or if everyone embraced meta, we would be an unfractured community. Unfortunately we aren’t fully one way or the other. The best part though is that we can split into different instances. My biggest issue is that to my knowledge, on lemmy.world there were no announcements stating intent, and to people like me that means pro-corporate and I need to leave. If they just announced I would have just slowly left without much fuss.
i do realise lemmy isn’t effected that badly compared to mastodon, but the basics still stand.
I feel like your post is low info outrage bait.i am no expert on all this but this seems dramatic.
I made the mistake of not just updating my post when I reply to people. My responses are scattered through the post. I encourage you to ctrl-f.
I was getting sidetracked, but thanks to your encouragement I updated the main post.
Awesome! Thanks a lot for caring enough to do all this.
Thanks :) I should have done it sooner. It was a touch exhausting managing a dozen conversations at once. Have you seen my cute downvote collection? haha
Or you can just leave once you actually see what happens. You lose nothing. You’re providing no actual problem posed by wait and see. If it isn’t good and they defederate after Threads federates, there’s very little difference to defederating beforehand. Certainly no permanent problems. I think most people are choosing not to stress and worry for literally no reason, especially when it may not come to pass.
Less stress in your life is better. Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere.
I think it’s silly people are using arguments from pre-launch. If what I’m being told is true from what is being posted there, it’s no doubt that it’ll get defederated from most places fairly quickly. However, whether your instance federates with it or not will do nothing to address your concerns that are legitimate. You have nothing to fear from the algorithm or curation in any way. That won’t affect you, federated or not. You also won’t be drowned out either. That’s not how federation works. Threads will dominate the narrative for a bit regardless of federation.
And your closing statement about “us” and “we” is culty and creepy. Don’t speak for people you don’t even know.
You want a server run by “one of you”? Run one yourself. You can do so for well under $100 a month (likely significantly lower depending on how snappy you want it).
I’m kind of tired of folks protesting against people hosting instances for others and entitled individuals making demands that they’ve done nothing to earn.
This has nothing to do with corporate. If you read what you linked, you’d know that full well. I’m guessing you didn’t go more than that one link deep and didn’t dive down to read the given reasons for the stance. Lazy.
I really wanted to reply to you but deleted half way in, sorry burning out. most people aren’t responding to what I’m actually saying, but just making massive assumptions half the time. For example I’m not talking about the API, EEE or privacy at all in the slightest.
Us and we can be used strangely by some, you might be reading into it a bit too much, but i also coulda phrased better. we/us as in the refugees of corporate bs from reddit.
I replied to the points you literally put in your post. I don’t know what you want. What points are you making then? What worry did I not address?
I really wanted to reply to you but deleted half way in, sorry burning out
I just want basic respect and for you to be literate. Go view lunars answer to see my central point. I’ve answered everything else you have said in other posts here. I’m not going to feed trolls any more.
I find it hysterical you pointed out someone being abusive but you’re absolutely a condescending asshole. Are you sure you even belong in this community? You’re acting ridiculously shitty to people. You yourself are toxic. If you want to be logically consistent, you should delete your account. Don’t be toxic.
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Leaving this site as well, as it keeps a mention as to whether an instance is currently allowing open sign ups or not.
Note: Even if an instance isn’t currently allowing open sign ups, they may have another sign up method going on in the background (like application/approval sign ups). If you’re interested in the instance, you should still check, just don’t expect quick/instant approval.
vlemmy.net is great
As I understand it, vlemmy’s policy is to federate with everyone. I’m guessing they would probably be the last Lemmy instance to defederate from Threads.
Their stance is here https://vlemmy.net/comment/639289
I understand both sides’ points. At the end of the day, it’s like going to your doctor. It’s a personal decision whether you stay and wait this out, or feel an “icky” ping in your gut-- a familiar feeling that doesn’t sit right with you. I’ve read these comments and it really all comes down to how and why you “internet.”
Personally, I’m getting the icky, oh-god-here-we-go feeling because I worry about privacy. I’ve tried to learn what all of this means. The conclusion I’ve come to is that I enjoy the 3D (4D?) world much more. I will always seek these communities for reading and info… but the reality seems to be: People want to connect online. I think I just want to use it to pay bills, look up movie times, and eff off. Signing onto anything requires a risk that I must evaluate-- at least until my hand is forced. Like with paying bills, looking up movie times, shopping and so on.
I share the concerns of OP, but I love what someone on this post said. Something close to: If you think corporate America isn’t coming for free space, you haven’t been on Earth very long… (sorry, person who said this. I’m butchering your comment).
If you’re getting the icky feeling, do something about it. I think we all are “internetting” for different reasons. We aren’t all just going to run away in protest. I may or may not stay, but I will continue to my best to find the quiet places. If it becomes too much, I’ll delete.
In a perfect world, it would be really nice to have a place online to be fun, free, and find reliable information in a quick and orderly fashion. So subscribing to the Fediverse means you will have to do some digging to find the communities you trust.
Yeah, I think the lack of announcement was why i made this post ultimately. I felt betrayed if they kept their views censored. I’m here because everywhere with close to uncensored(in regards to the evils in the world) speech gets compromised and I let me hopes get the better of me. I just wanna hear new ideas and talk with interesting people. I’d rather not have more standard corporate approved memes and repost bots etc. I don’t want to be in a meta tainted area.
Yeah. I totally get that. There’s the technical aspect of things, and the the ethical which carries a perceivable looming threat: “We’re coming for you.” I think people sense it, but are trying to play fair and ethical with a monster that has proven time-and-time again that it doesn’t give a shit about our wittle-bitty feewings. That’s the icky feeling I have at the moment. I understand your reason for sounding the alarm and appreciate that you’re sort of like ‘Holdup. Y’all seeing this?’ From there, I think the question becomes, how do we activate our inner Public Enemy and fight the power… or do we? Is it okay to just do us with the hopes of staying under the radar?
I like that you brought this up. Posts like this inspire important conversations that can (at the very least) inspire mods and creators to access the “how” and “why” of participating in the fediverse.
This was part of my plan all along! To raise awareness about what is happening so that others can do the right thing, or at least start thinking about it in a new way. I didn’t see many others talking about the narrative hijack stuff, so i took a bullet and gave it a go.
I think we all have different skills in this and need to find our easiest ways to personally do something. It’s a part of being in a community after all :). They want to control what we think about and talk about, so we can start by talking about what we aren’t meant to say, and my downvotes paint a clear picture lol. I even had a post mentioning facebook helping enable genocide removed by a mod.
We should make a big deal about the evils of Meta, especially how they control views to help promote genocide and how they are destroying our loved ones minds. @Lunar@lemmy.world Said it perfectly. We need to spread that kind of sentiment until we have a better idea of what to do next. We can force them to not federate.
Very nicely put. I’ve used all this for deep reflection about my internetting as well and I don’t think I have come to terms with everywhere being ruined by corporate. It’s not like they don’t fuck us over as well in the real world and I now realize what kind of fight we’re in on- and offline. Don’t want to give up any bit of space to evil corporations. I think it’s easy to create really quiet Lemmy instances (or other social sites, federated or not) where one can rest from all those aggressive algorithms, and if I do it at some point I will make it very connected to real life and good for information gathering. Other than that, I like real life, I’m not interested in much virtual stuff.
Yes! Agreed. <3 I fundamentally don’t believe that the internet is here to eat humanity alive. Corporations and greed are (sadly) integrated in our daily living in a variety of ways. And while it is wise to keep an eye on what’s going on and vote and engage accordingly, the best we can do is find what is useful without abandoning or compromising our individual quiet spaces. If they took away my ability to delete my account, then we’d have a problem. As long as I have real life to participate in, I’m good. My whole world isn’t inside of my computer screen. :D
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a wait-and-see approach.
We know the history of Meta. We ignore the history to wait and see.
This is literally FUD. Unless you can provide actual details of what the problem actually would be, you’re just spreading fear with no basis.
Given the relative scales, it’s best to put protection in place, then wait and see.
If Threads is a positive place, we open up and nothing is lost.
If Threads is a(nother) cesspit of hate and bots, then we have protected ourselves from it.
That argument works the other way a lot better. Mainly because a delay of a day or so won’t kill anyone and we’d actually see if it’s a cesspool and not some random screenshots or hearsay.
The admin is ready to defederate. Theres no benefit to doing it early.
I disagree entirely, that’s simply incorrect. You can observe whether it is a cesspool or not whether you federate or not. The federation will not affect it at all. Everyone is able to go and use Threads, we won’t need to rely on “random screenshots or hearsay”, or to federate in order to see whether it’s good or not.
It’s an unknown quantity, 1000x bigger than the current fediverse. If we federate then block, there is just a mess to clean up. And you know the first few days are going to be a nightmare anyway, as they are with any social media platform, while the controls spin up and new ways to abuse them are found.
The benefit to doing it early is to let it land and let the smoke clear before making a judgement, without creating a mess for existing users. This is really obvious.
I fail to understand your benefit. Defederation is extremely quick. If it’s a problem, there’s no mess to really deal with. I fail to see what the problem is even if it is problematic for a day or two. No one has actually voiced a real concern that provides a valid benefit to defederating beforehand vs seeing what happens and then defederating. You lose absolutely nothing.
As you said, “if it is problematic for a day or two”. It could be enormously problematic.
You fail to understand the benefit, and I don’t need to convince you, it’s still correct :)
Pretty sure you can’t explain what’s wrong because you have no idea how ActivityPub works.
Good rebuttal though. “Just trust me I’m right. Stop asking for details or questions. Just do what I say.”
I’ll wait and see if Facebook is even gonna end up doing federation correctly. Maybe they wont.
