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Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.

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[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is that necessary though? I feel like we should let them join. If they do something malicious, then we can block them. IMO, it doesn't make sense to just preemptively block them for no real reason.

[–] TrinityTek@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They've demontrated their evil nature in the past, promoting divisive and inciteful material and anything to drive engagement for the sake of advertiser dollars. I don't think we need to wait for them to do it again in the Fediverse. Better to head that shit off right up front.

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Microsoft did it before, we shouldn't let Meta do it now.

[–] Cynosure@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is wholly necessary. They will start massive data mining operations if they join, harming users of all instances.

[–] bric@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Data mining can happen without any of that, everything you post in the fediverse is literally available for anyone to see. Realistically, the most harm they can do is build controlled communities that grow so huge that they drown out all of the fediverse's open communities.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Look at what happened with Google Chrome and browser standards. We don't want a company that dominates the landscape changing the rules in their favour.

[–] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your most harm scenario is exactly what they want to do.

[–] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it is. And I'm not saying that's not a valid reason to resist companies in the fediverse, it totally is. I'm just saying the privacy concerns everyone is mentioning don't really make sense, anything they could get, everyone already has

[–] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I kind of roll my eyes about it too. "Things you delete are there forever" - that's literally how the internet has always worked. It's like when people found out their snap chats and Instagram stories could be seen by anyone who worked at the companies...like fucking obviously, they DEVELOPED the app and host all the content?!

[–] zelifcam@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t think I could disagree more. We value the fact that this tech can be scraped, API’d and redistributed. That’s kinda point and partial cause of the protesting going with Reddit at this moment. ???

We have abilities to block it ourselves. We want options and features to customize our personal experiences as we see fit. That’s what we are trying to build here.