I found this article interesting, written by a dev who worked with google during the XMPP EEE and was originally a XMPP dev, thinking that a big company could only mean more success for the FOSS alternative. He was wrong.

[–] MeetInPotatoes 9 points 1 year ago

It's almost like some people crave enshitification.

"Hey this decentralized stuff is really cool, let's connect with the most gigantic corporate assholes who would absolutely centralize all of it if they could...you know, so we can grow! What could go wrong?"

LIke...what?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish even one person could give the actual steps on how Facebook is going to ruin the fediverse instead of just spamming this same one article and throwing around the same buzzwords like XMPP, EEE etc. of which nobody had heard about a week ago.

There's so many people here right now reading this thinking that defederating is going to prevent Facebook from seeing the content you post here and collecting the little data that's available to them. It doesn't. That's not what defederating does.

[–] necrxfagivs 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not about the data they can collect. As long as we don't use the Meta app or register in their instance we're on the clear. The problem is giving them power.

I'm not an evil ~~genius~~ shithead like Zuck, but it could go this way:

They enter the Fediverse as the biggest instance.
They artificially slow down connections with other instances. That way, lots of users from smaller intances will migrate to the Meta one. Only the ones concerned about our privacy will remain in independent instances.
Once most of the userbase of the Fediverse is on their instance, they keep slowing it, or adding "features" only available in their app, effectively building a wall between them and the rest of instances.
Finally they defederate, leaving the rest of the fediverse weaker than it was.

There are some key thoughts in this article.

[–] Coreidan 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“ I'm not an evil genius like Zuck”

You give this ass bag too much credit. He’s a rich boy from rich parents. He stole Facebook from real thinkers and passed it off as his own.

He may be evil but he’s far from a genius. He’s as much of a genius as Elon is. Only thing Elon and Zuck are good at is fooling people they are smart.

[–] necrxfagivs 1 points 1 year ago

I can totally see that.

[–] dingus 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I really hope they come out with the user's ability to block instances soon. Would be a great feature addition. There are a couple of instances that I take no issue with and don't want others to be blocked access too, but I really just don't want to see them in my feed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I would prefer the functionality to migrate instances first…

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

If you use Lemmy Connect, they added the option to block instances like yesterday.

[–] dingus 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait, an app can do this? I thought the devs of Lemmy itself needed to add the feature. I didn't think that was possible app-side without adding the feature to Lemmy.

How do you block an entire instance in their app?

Edit: Found it! This is interesting. I didn't know it was possible. Finally I can get the porn off my front page without getting rid of NSFW memes. Thanks!

Edit 2: Weirdly, Connect does not seem to show my newly subscribed communities in my subscriptions even though the other apps do. What a strange bug. Hmm...I think I'll hold off on using it until things like that work better for me.

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

I think I saw someone else mentioned that bug as well. I think your subscription list in the main menu doesn't automatically refresh after you subscribe to a new community so currently you would have to close and reopen the app. Updates and bug fixes have been daily lately so hopefully that gets fixed soon.

[–] dingus 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately I haven't found a way to get newly subscribed communities to show up. Closing and reopening the app as you said doesn't seem to work for me. I have tried that and deleting and re-adding my account, but it doesn't seem to work. Once that is ironed out, it might be a nice switch. But it's a pretty big bug.

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

If you as user block an instance that doesn't really solve the problem, Threads is still federated and getting your stuff, it's just hidden from you