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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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Well, right now Meta is pushing, not pulling. Meaning, Threads content can be displayed on Masto, but not the other way around.

IMHO, the bigger threat is having Threads content completely dominate other activity pub clients. Other clients / communities could get dependent on it. Then Meta is basically a drug dealer with leverage.

Data collection doesn’t bother me too much. I’m not going to install their client and all of the behavior trackers that come with it, and my activity pub content is already freely available to query on the internet. If they want it, they already have access to it. Everyone does.

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

God why are all crying about XMPP? If you want to make it more popular just start using it yourself. If you don't have anyone to speak with over there just speak with me (seriously DM me).

Also we have a lot of open source alternatives by now so XMPP is just one of many good options which means that the people will go whith what they feel comfortable with. Trust me, if XMPP would be the only decentralized, open source chat protocol around I'd be using it exclusively and many others would probably too.

[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

This, the real threat is the amount of content that federates out possibly hurting others servers' performance as their enterprise kit will scale better.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Since lemmy can't pull from mastodon/threads, it seems like a complete non issue for now.

[–] webjukebox@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Data collection doesn’t bother me too much. I’m not going to install their client and all of the behavior trackers that come with it, and my activity pub content is already freely available to query on the internet. If they want it, they already have access to it. Everyone does.

I will be able to follow and see friends' posts and sports teams' posts through Mastodon without needing a Meta account nor install their shitty apps.

All I posted via fediverse is public already, traveling into some obscure instances, so I don't care if Meta uses or shares my public posts.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly I like the ActivityPub idea. If ActivityPub becomes mainstream I am fleeing mainstream social media.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Or you could just create your own locked down, nerdy circlejerk instance for people like you.