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Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" (wedistribute.org)
submitted 7 months ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I just wouldnt want to see sneaky “promoted” posts aka ads

I don't quite see how that would even work. Those posts would need to be coming from individual users rather than from Facebook itself and you can just block those users. Facebook can display ads in between posts on their own app but those wont be visible to people using other apps.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Here's one scenario.

  1. Facebook feeds its users content according to an algorithm.

  2. Facebook and lemmy users can interact with the same user content (liking, commenting).

  3. There are vastly more Facebook users than lemmy users.

  4. By dint of Facebook's greater number of users, lemmy users will see the most popular content that is fed algorithmically to Facebook users.

Conclusion: lemmy users are being fed content by the Facebook algorithm (in this still, thankfully hypothetical, scenario).

Like imagine Facebook promotes some viral post and it gets a thousands of upvotes. Any lemmy user on a federated instance, sorting by upvotes/hot/etc, is going to see that post.

That's the kind of top-down reach that is so alien to the fedi

[–] niartenyaw@midwest.social 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Facebook could just create fake users that post ads as content

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Hopefully fediverse admins are sensible enough to ban users who are blatantly posting advertisements. I know that a lot are, but I also know that a few of the bigger servers tend to turn a blind eye to that kind of thing.

[–] young_broccoli@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago

See Grrgyle's reply. That would be mine If I could explain things as good as them.