Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"

Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlmod to Fediverse@lemmy.ml – 344 points –
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"
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Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.

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Why cover your nuts when you can just let somebody kick you there repeatedly?

In this analogy, they haven't kicked your nuts.

Where have you been living the last 20 years? Facebook is a repeated offender.

In this analogy, they haven’t kicked your nuts.

Sure they have, over and over and over, just not in this neighborhood yet. Folks were either too young to witness or just weren't paying attention to the decades of anti-consumer bullshit from this company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Criticisms_and_controversies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuits_involving_Meta_Platforms

Here's a couple recent individual ones:

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/26/meta-gaza-censorship-warren-sanders/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

They have been very nearly the worst example of an awful tech company for their entire existence. They will exploit the fediverse to the maximum extent they can, and we should not be voluntarily accompanying them.

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