Pennomi

You’re getting downvoted but you’re right. If they joined the fediverse that means you can have an account on any other platform you choose, including one you own. And that one account can access all the content everywhere. So basically you’d get all the perks of YouTube but few if any of the problems.

Alts or bots, maybe

Why would anyone pay for that if lemmynsfw is free?

If that’s truly the case, nothing on earth can protect your data.

That being said, large corporations are far more liable to consumer protection lawsuits, especially in areas like the EU.

The easiest way is a sitewide NoAI meta tag, since it’s the current standard. Researchers are much more likely to respect a common standard and extremely unlikely to respect a single user’s personal solution adding a link to their comments.

Plus even if you defederate them, oops, it’s all public anyway!

Yeah but now they have to play by our rules or get defederated. We are no longer at the mercy of profit motives.

Because they’re not familiar with the concept of doing whatever the fuck you want.

The only thing Reddit still has is certain very active niche communities, but we do great on the more general stuff.

It’s a lovely place these days. Welcome back.

I hope not. I know this is controversial but there’s literally no benefit from defederating. People can simply block threads at a personal level if they want.

Even if you do, everything on Lemmy is public so you gain no privacy advantage by blocking it. The only thing you might prevent is a reduction in content quality, but again, if that bothers you just block the instance yourself.

This is a classic kneejerk reaction where people are trying to prevent a hypothetical harm before it has even proven to be a problem.

Yep, on a public forum like this we lose very little on privacy by federating with them. What we do stand to lose is comment and post quality, but that’s trivial to fix by simply blocking threads on a personal level.