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I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[-] Scrollone@feddit.it -2 points 8 months ago

Let's federate with Threads. Let's not jump to conclusions beforehand.

I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and see how they behave. We can always defederate later.

[-] Andonyx@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

Yes! I wonder how a company working with Cambridge analytica to start a war, and influence elections worldwide, who sold children's personal information illegaly in EU, and gleefully partcipates in the Prism surveillance program, would be? 🤔 I mean it's not like they just gutted their staff trying to deal with misinformation for the 24 election. We simply can't predict how they might behave!

[-] Syrc@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

If we defederate after the second step of EEE it still won’t save us from the third one.

[-] JustUseMint@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Bad take dude it's like saying let's not jump to conclusions after Hitler invaded Poland or retuck the Rhineland Jesus Christ. They have such a comically horrific history they've run out of chances years ago

[-] bluefirex@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Sure, absolutely the same. Definitely not wrong in the slightest...

[-] sour@kbin.social -1 points 8 months ago

appeasement guy but 2023

[-] sour@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

am release goldfish because want to give him benefit of doubt

can always remove later

[-] greencactus@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

I think it would make sense for certain instances to not block Threads, if people want to keep this connection. But it is always far, far easier to unblock Threads later than to federate now and then to defederate later for big instances such as Lemmy.world. I don't think the mainstream opinion is "BLOCK THREADS FOREVER!!1!1!1!", but that we should be cautious anout the risks connected with it. And if Meta will be nice and won't 3E - nice, then we can federate later on. But as long as that isn't clear, we should make sure we won't be overtaken.

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