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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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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can see it playing out fine either way, although it's certainly more turbulent federating if we are to see their content and it washes out the other communities (which to my understanding is unlikely since it's user based content like Mastodon). As others said, they already have our data, too.

Instead, I just wish the more... extreme communities didn't defederate already. I'd love to see Meta users react to Hexbear or Exploding Heads in an unfiltered, unadulterated way (or those much much worse instances that everyone defederates from). Instead they get us relatively tame, generally nerdy Lemmy users. I didn't even know what a Tankie was back in the before times!

[-] Lucia@eviltoast.org 12 points 1 year ago

Exploding Heads gave up on Lemmy a few months ago.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Huh. Well, wouldn't know. Kind of the point of defederating, I guess, you just stop thinking about them.

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Defederating and deplatforming works lmao.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I must have joined after they left, what was it? I'm just familiar with hexbear.

[-] Lucia@eviltoast.org 10 points 1 year ago

Alt-right troll instance.

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