• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Am I to understand that I may see THREADS posts in the main feed here soon??? Oh god… 🤢🤢🤢🤮

    Can’t they just leave us the fuck alone???

    • Pussista@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      I‘m pretty sure Lemmy lets you block instances just like Mastodon. In that case, if your instance decides to federate with them, you can just block that instance.

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        8 months ago

        I’ll move to an instance that aligns with my views instead…who’s to say that there won’t be some weird as backdoor deals with the instance owner and fuckerburg. Money makes people do bad bad things.

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          8 months ago

          While I get the sentiment, your posts are public anyway, so they’re just a tiny step away from being scraped by Meta. Technically, they wouldn’t need to bother with federation for just profiling you or training their AI on your or anyone’s posts. Although, Meta will sure as hell find a way to blacken the pages - one way or any other.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      If the rest of the instances let them, then yes, but if none of the instances do, then no.

    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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      8 months ago

      Yups. Lemmy.world is the biggest instance that hasn’t pre-emptively defederated from Threads. That’s problematic, because it’s also the biggest content provider for Lemmy. Ruud & Co are really dropping the ball here.

  • Today@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    So anyone with a meta account could post ads that float through to here?

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      8 months ago

      As long as meta isn’t instantly defederated, and as such I guess I should switch to an instance that will defederate simply to keep ads away.

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        8 months ago

        But i don’t see corporate accounts here posting ads like they do on Facebook, etc.

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    8 months ago

    I think Cottle means all the engineers at Meta have good intentions and I believe him. Its not the engineers whom I doubt its the managers, MBAs and CEOs I don’t trust.

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    8 months ago

    That reminded me to finally delete my Lemmy.world account 😅

      • IGuessThisIsForNSFW@yiffit.net
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        8 months ago

        A little while ago a bunch of instances all decided not to federate with threads, lemmy.world said they would, a bunch of people got upset.

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        8 months ago

        It’s federated with Threads. I dont wanna be on an instance federated with Threads. Don’t know why I got downvoted but whatevss