Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook

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I'm pretty conflicted about this I gotta say.

You shouldn't be. These companies are not here to play along, but dominate. Just like reddit played along with 3rd party developers until it didn't need them anymore, so will Meta use the openess of the protocol to ultimately undermine it.

Embrace --> Extend --> Extinguish
   ^-------  Facebook is currently here

They are, but we should figure out how to beat them at their game. They'll probably manage to get custody of the remainder of the decent people from twitter, being able at an individual level to follow a single person over there without having to hear from all the people over there would be a better solution.

Right now we lack the proper tools to keep them at bay without massive moderation on our end so blocking them is best, but we can eventually work out a middleground.