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Anything about the lemmy.ml instance and its moderation.

For discussion about the Lemmy software project, go to [email protected].

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It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it's users will not be allowed to proceed.

We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.

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[–] Cstrrider 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I am confused by this too. If you don't federate with threads doesn't that just make it easier to grow? Personally I am more curious about Mastodon now because if people I follow on twitter move to threads I can just use mastodon and not twitter or threads...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my personal opinion, Lemmy should be more focused on content rather than RAPID growth.

Growth is usually related to corporations mindset, which is a "for-profit" mindset, and unfortunately, as we seen in the past it, it comes with "by all means" attitude, results in manipulating users, make users addicted, and more actions at the expense of the users.

You'll see that when Lemmy will pile up more content, the community will naturally grow in a healthy manner.

[–] Cstrrider 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess I didn't specify well. What I meant was if Mastodon is an ad free (or at least let ads and more private) alternative to view Threads posts, along with Mastodon posts wouldn't that reduce the number of threads accounts and reduce their growth? So wouldn't defederating actually help draw more people to threads? Plus how would defederating reduce the E/E/E process that everyone is worried about? I would think it would accelerate it or best case have no impact...

Also I think I may have replied to the wrong comment lol