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.
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pjhenry is a troll that ignores what people actually say, he focuses on his intentional misunderstandings and straw-men, just stop feeding the troll guys, he only wants to fight over nothing. He only acts in bad faith.
I’d argue defederating can be based on whatever the hell the admins of the instance wants. That’s the freedom of the fediverse, instances are free to choose what they do and do not want. And you the user are free to choose the instance that aligns with your wants.
Obviously, we’re only guests in the admin’s house, as long as the admin wants us to be there. But during the time I was on Mastodon, I saw some (de)federation discussions, and the admins said that most of the time: facts, not assumptions.
My statement was more referring to the idea that defederating based on facts are not a definite rule. Ideally facts are used, but sometimes it won’t. Speculation is pretty fair considering prior facts in this scenario.
No one is using any facts that actually makes sense. They just keep using scary corporate spooky words. Ignoring that the toot says they will defederate if there is reason to do so addresses the “speculation”. It’s simply a matter of whether the defederate now and risk being overzealous or defederate the next day after they see evidence. There’s no real harm in making sure one isn’t overreacting.
Embrace, extend, and extinguish is a real tatic used by big tech companies for years though. It is fair to assume this strategy will be in play, as times the FOSS community hasn’t things died as a result.
You can’t just keep saying it’s a tactic without remotely arguing how it’s even possible. Facts will help you. Spreading FUD with no understanding of how ActivityPub works doesn’t help you.
You’ve been very active in this post attacking users personally, but are unable to actually articulate anything of your own. Care to elaborate on how this is all a non issue, or your understanding of ActivityPub?
ActivityPub works closer to an RSS feed, so it wouldn’t be real-time like an algorithmic feed that updates constantly. When you post something via ActivityPub, it simply posts. Other servers will rank it based on the actual stats. So the best that can be done to try and force the algorithm on you without breaking spec too much (ie: doesn’t change the spec, but uses it improperly) would be to post it with false statistics. It’s pointless to do that though. So ultimately, the algorithm will have very little effect. In regards to EEE, I can’t think of how it actually could do that, and I’m at a loss why I need to prove a negative. Anyone who is positing to will happen needs to back up their point of view with how.
And literally everything I’ve posted were my own thoughts. And yeah, I was abusive to the person who told me I was illiterate because I asked them to clarify an extremely vague FUD stance.
I just want people to articulate what the difference is between defederating now and defederating after seeing how it actually plays out. Literally no one has done that yet. Not one single person has been able to back up their point with an articulated answer beyond “but but meta is evil.” Yeah, I agree. I don’t have Instagram. I don’t have Facebook. I don’t have Threads. I don’t even care if my instance defederates before or after either. I will care if they choose not too and federating causes the experience to degrade. But I don’t need to worry about that right now. It costs a lot mental stress to be worrying about such a non-issue now when it’s just as easy to take action when it comes time to cross that bridge.
Personally, I just really dislike how poorly so many people are using logic and that is what I’m more interested in. Unfortunately no one has shed any light that actually has evolved the topic beyond the same vague principle of “meta is bad.” Hell, some are arguing entirely different points but the OP seems to be entirely in agreement even though the logical conclusion isn’t remotely the same between the two.
I just want to know why there are users so actively trying to dismantle other instances. Like, is OP secretly a fan of Threads and is spouting this nonsense everywhere trying to get people to leave instances everywhere?
It’s entirely not doing anything positive for the fediverse to be acting like many of the other folks in this thread.
The only group that benefits from posts like this is Threads.
Appreciate you taking the time to write that out. You make some good points. I’ve been no lifing this subject for the past couple of hours, and while I was definitely on the bandwagon that OP is, I’ve pretty much arrived at the same consensus. I feel it’s a wiser choice to wait and see, before going full scorched earth. Cheers.
You’re right, I don’t know how ActivityPub works. Perhaps explain to me how this tactic is impossible?
I can only base things off of my knowledge and from what I understand you can remove activitypub support just as (relatively) easily as you add it.