Yeah, to quote the Joker here “it’s about sending a message.” Doesn’t matter about the technical reality, it just would’ve determined the wording. “If they try to federate with us, we won’t have any of it.”
I didn’t see them say that though, saw a Mastodon post and an admin thread on .world that specifically said they would wait and see.
Thank you and you too. I apologize that I didn’t make my point more civilly. I’m an old-ass techie that has seen enshitification ruin just about every new frontier and being noncommittal about keeping them out while we have a chance is, to me, a surefire recipe to have big capital ruin this little experiment in freedom. I think that you just have to study Meta’s history to assure yourself that their intentions are always self-serving and never in the public interest. My incivility is purely because of how strongly I loathe them, not you. Take care.
I genuinely am. Part of why I hate Meta, Reddit, and Twitter is how callously they treat their users. The reason that I have very little patience for people that stick up for them is that I don’t like bullies or the enabling of bullies. Go take a look at the app permissions required to use Threads and tell me that any “nice” person would think it’s ok to harvest that much data. We are livestock to them.
I literally left Lemmy.world and stopped recurring donations to switch to Lemmy.ml
But you’re muddying the waters with a disingenuous argument. They can be open to all individual users without being open to connection with possibly the worst actor in the social media space.
You’re also mischaracterizing staying free of giant corporate influence as “taking overtly political actions blah blah on behalf of its users” and starting to sound 100% like a corporate shill with absolutely dogshit arguments that only a moron wouldn’t see through.
Who is worse, Meta or the people who want nothing to do with Meta?
The answer to that is extremely easy.
Protecting their users from bad actors is exactly what server admins should be doing as good admins. That’s not political, and go lick boot somewhere else.
The FOSS alternative to the big corporate controlled social media corps that swallow up smaller social media alternatives is not anti-corporate? Ok.
Just once, when I saw a post here linking to a Reddit post with all the backlash from ending awards.
I wanted to tell them all to abandon the sinking shithole of a ship that is Reddit and come to the Fediverse. Wasn’t worth making an account over though, they’ll figure it out.
Maybe it was their refusal to take a stance on Meta and Threads? The admins of .ml said it took them 2 minutes to decide to preemptively defederate. .World on the other hand came to an anti-corporate platform and publicly took a position that they would wait and see about federation with Meta.
It’s like saying “power to the people and viva revolution but we are also remaining open to licking boot depending on the circumstances.”
I did actually switch from lemmy.world to lemmy.ml and turn off recurring donations just off of the weak admin announcement they made about Threads like “let’s just wait n see, hmmkay?”
Umm. No, you’re in an anti-corporate environment full of refugees from greedy Reddit and you can’t denounce one of the worst corporate actors in the social media space and promise to have nothing to do with them? I have no idea if OP’s story is true, but I do know that they’re not the instance for me just from what they HAVE been willing to say.
It’s like how Dexter only murders murderers, I only bully bullies.  I really get the feeling that you weren’t trying to now so I’m sorry for that but when you ask some one “they really know nothing about X do they” it’s always considered insulting.
Then those people should not try to insult others for their lack of knowledge about business while displaying a lack of proficiency in English.
You have no idea about business expenses do you.
Figure out punctuation first.
Fully agree with all of that. The difference I see with ActivityPub is that we can say they can use it all they want but we won’t be connecting with them or interacting with their users at all.
And they honestly probably won’t care, but it makes it clear where the rest of us stand and communicates to current Fediverse users a commitment to stay as free as possible from corporate influence. I felt like there was no room for milquetoast answers to that question.