Sorry if this is not the right community, but I wonder if lemmy.world plans to defederate Facebook?
There are other instances that have taken a stronger stance. Including my own.
That seems to be case. I haven’t been able to find any official statement, though.
Oh, the statement I linked above is their official stance. It’s on mastodon.world but the same admin also runs lemmy.world.
Sorry, I don’t see a link.
That’s odd, I can see it when I check from lemmy.world, so it definitely federated. Here it is as plain text though https://mastodon.world/@mwadmin/111586575027739169
And the first link just went hot for me. Weird. Thanks for posting it again.
Thanks!
Please
noooooyesss!Edit: brain made post description opposite 😵
As in “We’re all tired of talking about Facebook” or as in “Please don’t defederate them”?
Fixed it 😹 Single negative issue hehe
LOL! If I had a nickel… :D
Looks like it will federate for now. Unless it changes.
Not the right community for this, you should delete this one and post in the lemmy.world support community
I think it has already defederated from them.
Edit: Maybe this commebt is wrong.
One of the reasons I moved to this instance was that during the first announcement .world didn’t want to defederate Facebook. That and the extensive block list, I can do that for myself thank you very much
My question is more “Why would anyone want to federate Facebook?”
Content.
I’ll probably block it, but if they bring a large number of users and communities, that comes with content more people want to see.
I’m ambivalent about decisions to defederate because both have merits. Cut them out completely to protect the community, or let the users choose who and what they want to block for themselves. I guess with that in mind, I’m fine with the “wait and see” approach for now.
I admit that “Guilty until proven innocent” doesn’t typically sit well with me. However, this is Facebook. We have 20 years of history to judge. At this point, only a willfully naive fool would trust them not to destroy anything they can’t take control of and profit from.
Also, is the huge influx of content really added value? I don’t use facebook and its offshoots because the content is irrelevant or ragebait. I certainly don’t miss it over here, and while users can individually block Facebook from their feed, as far as I know this doesn’t protect the user’s data from being federated to facebook unless their instance defederates them completely.
… this doesn’t protect the user’s data from being federated to facebook….
That’s my concern. I haven’t been on Facebook in years, and I don’t want to share anything with them now. I’ll likely be deleting a couple of accounts that are exposed to them.
But what kind of content? It seems like the kind of content that a facebook backed community would bring is the same kind of content that gets mocked endlessly by those on the fediverse.
Why would we celebrate more of it?
Content isn’t the problem. Seriously, read that article. I was 100% pro-federation before I read it. Now I’m 100% against it.
People that we want to follow that went to threads instead of mastodon
Like Reddit, there are niche communities like one for my 3d printer and stuff like that. But I do dread the trash heap I see being reposted for mocking. Guess I’ll see.