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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.

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[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

lemm.ee isn't left wing, they just don't believe in knee jerk defederation. Check the post on defederation by the lemm.ee instance runner (https://lemm.ee/post/4543536). Very mature, very balanced and very principled. Compare that to the lemmy.world one, and it's a no contest.

I'm a socialist, and while I think tankies have a dumb conclusions (that Stalin and CCP are good things), I have not seen anything I would consider toxic. Seems that people cannot handle large images. Maybe in a world where caps lock is shouting, that's toxic. Not for me though.

Can you explain what a targeted harassment campaign is, and give examples. I've heard many people claim this, but I've never seen anyone provide evidence.

[–] hellequin67@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I also think that instance defedration may become a thing of the past and now, with v19, leave it to the user to decide.

That said I'm fully on board with blocking Threads.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I do agree that this is a good step, but those of us that are concern about privacy arent protected. It will stop the receipt of data on our end, but Facebook will still have access to any posts interacted with by Threads users.

Given their habit of creating advertisement shadow profiles of non Facebook user, that is concerning.

It would, however, all me to migrate to an instance that isnt federated with threads, and block leas savory instances here on Lemmy who arent data concerns.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

but those of us that are concern about privacy arent protected.

Google already indexes lemmy and mastodon.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Are we being defeatist about it? Because I don't think the solution to data privacy invasions is to just directly give them all the data straight into their servers.

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