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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the benefit of “banning the crap out of them?”

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is how the tried and true agenda goes using Meta's threads.net and the Fediverse as an example.

  • Meta's site gets wildly popular because of corporate backing
  • Meta's site does something on purpose to cause poor operability with the rest of the Fediverse
  • People not on Meta's site can no longer properly communicate with people on Meta's site, they go to Meta's site
  • The Fediverse gets fractured and nobody cares because everyone is on Meta's site
  • Meta's site is the sole survivor and the rest of the platform dies.
  • Meta enshitifies their site as corporations typically do (think Twitter)

So yeah, ban the shit out of them. The proper term is defederate them, but do it with extreme prejudice.

[–] faltuuser -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And if an instance get widely popular and gets corporate backing? Should we ban the shit out of them too?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Facebook bought one of the big Lemmy instances, yes absolutely, defederate it.