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I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Absolutely the same for me. Threads must not be allowed.

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Any admins of Lemmy.world reading this? Can we tag them?

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[–] Icaria@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I thought Threads was supposed to be a competitor to twitter? I don't understand how they'd even integrate with Lemmy instances. I'm here to see posts from boards/forums/subs, not from specific people. Would posts from random Threads user profiles start showing up on the main page?

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Fuck anything and everything about Meta. Don't let them near this.

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (23 children)

I will be leaving if lemmy.world defederates with threads.

Just give users the ability to block instances themselves so we can be done with this.

Stop letting other people make decisions for you.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm not worried about Threads joining the fediverse. They can't even properly implement hashtags and trending topics, which already puts them far behind Mastodon and X.

Also, how would users on a microblogging platform be able to interact with a Lemmy instance? I'm a bit confused about how ActivityPub works in that respect.

The 'they can farm our data' argument is a bit moot when Lemmy is already publicly accessible, and it makes us no better than Spez if we are trying to combat people for 'data scraping"

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[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago (11 children)

What public info could they gather? My IP?

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[–] Rognaut@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I will absolutely change instances to one which has defederated from FB.

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I'm planning the same.

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[–] QaspR@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I am in agreement on this one.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Threads content won't show up in your feed unless you go out of your way to follow a threads user. All defederating does is deny your users the benefits of activity pub. If twitter is anything to go by then Threads content will be on this platform through screenshots anyway.

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[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago
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