• Powerpoint@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I understand your viewpoint but you have to realize meta/Facebook has done this before. The best solution to protect Lemmy/mastodon in the long run is to cut the cancer out before it has a chance dm to spread.

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      1 year ago

      When you cut off a cancer, it dies. When you defederate a social network orders of magnitude larger and more powerful than you… it doesn’t even notice and continues to thrive.

      This isn’t going to harm Threads or protect Lemmy.ml.

      • Hello Hotel@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        No, there are conciquences, we are at a point where its hard to see them

        We take a risk no matter what we do, when we pull that plug both FB and us loose control of eachother,

        FB will likely try to Embrace Extend Extinguish

        We really shoud try to get along until they go evil. but…

        at the same time we do somthing with our end of the link (3E method but without coersion like they will) or we die.

        OR we cut them off

        we sever the link and both sides lose power, Huge company with propaganda factories vs Good will and word of mouth alone,

        FB could also force federate by webscraping (likely read only)