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Fediverse Corporate and National Sabotage (lemm.ee)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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The GenP subreddit got banned on Reddit. We can only take a guess as to why(I seriously don't know, please let me know if you do).

But regardless, it brings up a serious question. How will big corpos and nations force their control on lemmy and other fediverse communities?

Places like reddit, twitter, instagram and even "fediverse" bluesky cave to demands from corporates and countries all the time. But what happens when the real fediverse platforms get attention?

How will they ban, sabotage and coerce instances and communities to cave into demands?

I know lemmy and other fediverse platforms are still very small right now, but I believe it's only time before the sabotage begins. Instagram stepping into the territory tells you how scared zuck already is.

And How will we get around this?

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

On the technical side they could abuse API calls although that wouldn'r be necessary because using the current API setup but flooding it with massive amounts of data would be a burden on locally hosted instances. The main reason I am opposed to Threads and other social media federating with their massive amounts of mediocre to crap data would be overwhelming for both instances and users. Yeah, there are blocks and all that but if the server is dying from being overwhelmed with traffic it doesn't matter.

The big players can damage the fediverse simply by being allowed to federate.