Is there any hope? Or is it inevitable that big corporations will take over what started as a way to escape big corporate platforms and to focus on real communities and discussions and replace it with a toxic shithole pumped full of ads?

  • mochi@lemdit.com
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    1 year ago

    You can’t keep them out, but you can choose not to Federate with them. They can’t take over. That’s the point of having independent federated servers.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They have the right to use the open protocol, just as anybody else to build their own instance. Trying to keep Facebook out only through banning of known instances/IP addresses is a losing battle of whack-a-mole.

    If you really want to stop them from EEE, make a pact to refuse to federate with any instance software stack without the AGPL-3.0 license instead, no Apache, no MIT, not even regular GPL, so they simply can’t do the “Extend” bit at all.

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    1 year ago

    I’d have to imagine that Meta would be locked within their own little bubble. I find it hard to believe that many of the current instances out there wouldn’t immediately opt to defederate from Meta out of principle. I don’t think it’d be difficult to find a community that’s blocked all interaction with Meta.

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      1 year ago

      Meta plans to fedi with activitypub so I doubt that they’re trying to be a closed island. They are probably trying to come into this space to disrupt and destroy. All of fedi needs to cut them out right away.

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    1 year ago

    Jesus Christ 🤦‍♂️

    The entire point of federation is you can’t.

    Go post your uneducated meta circle jerk hate back on Reddit.

    • Thafirton@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      Don’t be a dick. Seriously, dude posted in Not Stupid Questions and you immediately tell him how stupid his question is.