True, but let’s not forget that Lemmy instances are hosted by ordinary people without the finances to employ high price legal teams. If they receive a threatening letter from (for example) Sony or Disney they still have to either acquiesce or find a lot of money very quickly to simply argue their case.

There’s a difference between ‘governance’ and ‘control’. And I really doubt Erin Kissane of all people is involved in efforts to control the fediverse.

So, a web forum then.

Saddens me to see instance admins reducing their users legitimate concerns as ‘reactionary’ as if we/they are dumb ignorant fucks with no concrete concerns.

This is the very start of Meta gaining a foot hold in the fediverse. Of course they’re not going to do anything overtly shitty at the very start. That’ll come later when they get a firm foothold, start suggesting ‘helpful’ tweaks to ActivityPub, get a seat at various tables etc. The privacy issue is not so much (to me) about what they can do now , because he’s right, anyone can set up scrapers and use the API, it’s about what they’ll introduce on Threads instances a few years from now, then offer to make part of the ActivityPub standard because its just so cool.

Of course there’ll be ads at some point on Threads instances and Meta are the absolute masters at online ads. They’re so good at it, not even UBO catches them all. If anyone honestly believes they’re not going to be capable of injecting ads at some point in the future, they’re living in a rose tinted fantasy land.

But those things are the future. Right now, Threads is already a place that is awash with hate groups like LibsOfTikTok etc. One of things I love about the fediverse is that I don’t have to wade through that type of shit. It’s mostly not here via defederation and if we know (as we do) that threads already has that type of content on it, why the fuck are people so keen to ‘wait and see’? We can already see.

And yes, I know - I can user block and instance block, but the times I have to do that right now with an active userbase of less than 2 million across the fediverse are few and far between. Ramp that active userbase up to 100 million and it’s going to feel like most of my time is spent playing whack-a-mole. That’s not an enjoyable user experience in any way. And even after I’ve done all that, the open warfare that’s going to break out with well-meaning non-Threads users reposting, quoting ‘look at this evil fuck’ type posts is going to mean I still end up seeing some christian fascists dumb take on COVID or whatever.

We, as a group of people, developed and use fediverse software precisely to escape this sort of shit. When are we going to learn that growth for the sake of growth is absolutely meaningless? Focus on quality and organic growth will occur. Let’s have enough faith in the software and users that corporate users want to come to us.

It’s difficult to keep an accurate track but as far as I can tell you’ve had accounts banned by .world, hexbear, .blahaj.zone (and lemm.ee?). They all seem to follow a pattern of saying something bad enough to get banned, moving to a new instance, complain on the new instance about the old instance, get into a fight with the new instances members, get banned again. And all the while begging for the attention to stop.

If that’s at all an accurate summation, I’d say you need to rein in your desire for attention.

Yep, I see that too.

If it matters to anyone, this is not an open source app.

Feed for this Community is https://lemmy.ml/feeds/c/fediverse.xml?sort=Active you can change the sort to suit you.

Probably spam instances that got booted out all in one go.

Just to make you aware: Linguist is an add-on that allows you to change its settings to use the Bergamaot offline translator, making it totally private.

I just want the fediverse to be useful, good, welcoming to everyone and pleasant to use. If that means we get 0.1% of the audience that combined mainstream social media gets, I’m fine with that. If we get 100% of the audience that combined mainstream social media gets, I’m fine with that too. Quality, not quantity.