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Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 197 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I know there’s a ton of skepticism about Meta entering the fediverse — it’s completely understandable,” Cottle says. “I do want to kind of make a plea that I think everyone on the team has really good intentions. We really want to be a good member of the community and give people the ability to experience what the fediverse is.”

Your intentions mean exactly nothing when you're being paid by Zuckerberg.

It also doesn't actually matter what you intend, because the problem isn't just what the platform can do, it's about Meta being in this space and trying to stake a claim in it. We came here to escape you. Go the fuck away.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Right? I don't care what their intentions are, if they continue to house hate groups, their "intentions" count for exactly nothing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I fully believe that metas only intention of joining the fediverse is to find a way to undermine it. Nothing more.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Their intentions don't matter. Meta's only intention is make line go up. They will either consume or extinguish the fediverse with the rest of the corps. I'll be leaving lemmy.world the minute thread federates. I'm just gonna be a lazy ass until then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I thought I understood lemmy.world's position several months ago was to not federate with Threads. This was the vocal position of many instances. Has this changed?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I... Don't think lemmy.world said it. I think they took more of a "wait and see" approach, in contrast to most other instances. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed, my reaction will mainly be "oh no - creates account on another instance - well anyway..."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I already did. But what will happen to the fediverse will mirror what happened to email when corporations came in. So eventually you will have nowhere to run.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the engineering team has good intentions, but Zuck and his Fucks surely don't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I don't believe for a second that any of them have good intentions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I'm not a fan of Meta and I don't want to join Threads. But there may be some people over there I would like to follow. At least on Mastodon, we can block any instance we choose to manually. I hate when instances make the decision for me.

Defederation should be a last resort when there are so many options here for people to tailor their own feeds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

How long before they spam us with their ads, pushing them as posts?