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.

  • JonEFive@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    And realistically, there’s nothing stopping them from setting up a bunch of nondescript shell instances to gather data anyway.