I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

  • Icaria@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So what would federating involve, then? How would it change how lemmy.world users see lemmy.world?

    • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Nothing. Currently it would not be visible at all. In the backend however federating means that the Threads servers might - at some point in the future - fetch data from lemmy.world (and not display it either, only let it sit on the server).

      • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        But Meta can already do that through user accounts or through a honeypot/passive instance, correct? All public conversations are open, as are all public user profiles.