ruffsl@programming.dev to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoSecond largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebooklemmy.mlexternal-linkmessage-square1022fedilinkarrow-up13.66Karrow-down158file-text
arrow-up13.6Karrow-down1external-linkSecond largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebooklemmy.mlruffsl@programming.dev to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square1022fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareabhibeckert@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoWhen you cut off a cancer, it dies. When you defederate a social network orders of magnitude larger and more powerful than you… it doesn’t even notice and continues to thrive. This isn’t going to harm Threads or protect Lemmy.ml.
minus-squareHello Hotel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoNo, there are conciquences, we are at a point where its hard to see them We take a risk no matter what we do, when we pull that plug both FB and us loose control of eachother, FB will likely try to Embrace Extend Extinguish We really shoud try to get along until they go evil. but… at the same time we do somthing with our end of the link (3E method but without coersion like they will) or we die. OR we cut them off we sever the link and both sides lose power, Huge company with propaganda factories vs Good will and word of mouth alone, FB could also force federate by webscraping (likely read only)
When you cut off a cancer, it dies. When you defederate a social network orders of magnitude larger and more powerful than you… it doesn’t even notice and continues to thrive.
This isn’t going to harm Threads or protect Lemmy.ml.
No, there are conciquences, we are at a point where its hard to see them
We take a risk no matter what we do, when we pull that plug both FB and us loose control of eachother,
FB will likely try to Embrace Extend Extinguish
We really shoud try to get along until they go evil. but…
at the same time we do somthing with our end of the link (3E method but without coersion like they will) or we die.
OR we cut them off
we sever the link and both sides lose power, Huge company with propaganda factories vs Good will and word of mouth alone,
FB could also force federate by webscraping (likely read only)