Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
I cannot see anything bad here. Blocking an actively malicious actor should be the norm.
not saying they are innocent but they haven’t done anything yet, they are predicted to be bad but haven’t yet.
Did you already forget the shit Facebook keeps doing? Repeatedly.
Ounce of prevention > pound of cure; or in Meta’s case, imperial fucktonne of cure.
They have done a lot of bad, not with threads, but with any other app. A wait and see approach to Facebook at this point is insanity.
like this?
I’m voting for Trump because he hasn’t done anything bad as a second term president.
So wasn’t Google when they killed XMPP.
if only Facebook had started in 2004 and not 2024 we might have some historical evidence about how the company handles moderation or community safety or protecting user data or…
if only threads wasn’t launching literally today and we knew if they’d enthusiastically welcome hate accounts like Libs of Tiktok https://www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/timeline-impact-libs-tiktok-told-through-educators-health-care-providers-librarians
The thing is, Meta does not care about community safety, or moderation, or protecting user data. (Fun fact: they don’t have a data protection agreement, but a data usage agreement.) All they care about is how they can get the most money out of something. Killing off things left and right of their path.
The question is not IF Meta kills the Fediverse but only WHEN they do it.
It’s Facebook dude. To put it in Lemmy friendly terms, they’re not different entities in the way that Linux and Windows are. They’re different entities in the same way that Windows and Xbox are. It’s not technically the same thing but it’s the same people calling the shots. Expecting something different is only going to leave you disappointed.