They could and anyone things that they’re not already doing that is high. But thats not the concern of the fedipact. We just dont want them here as in their posts, their culture and their behavior.
Which is batty. I want lemmy to grow, to have niche communities open up etc. Gatekeeping people because “we don’t take kindly to your type” is plain stupid.
Whatever „batty“ means.
Your argument is falsely equating our „we dont accept authoritarian systems here“ to „we dont accept people“ which is thinly veiled gaslighting.
No, the issue is “we don’t accept people from facebook”. It doesn’t matter what their opinion is - facebook bad.
We’ve already had this debate and we don’t care that you don’t like it. If you want to be on Threads, go be on fucking Threads. Not all of us want Lemmy to grow at all.
Why would you not want it to grow. I would have never cared about my online privacy if I didn’t stumble upon a Lemmy thread on reddit and join. I would have never ditched windows for Linux without Lemmy. I would not have done a lot of things without Lemmy. Saying you don’t want it to grow is dumb if something does not grow it will die. If you don’t want to see there content then block them. You should not be able to decide what others see.
Which is batty. I want lemmy to grow
That’s like saying you want your country club to grow by letting crackheads, ex-convicts and hooligans have a membership card.
I want Lemmy to grow too but not at any cost. I’d rather have quality than quantity quite frankly.
I agree and disagree. Crackheads and ex convicts are humans, meta is not human.
Its like letting the invading army of nazi germany in because „they’re human“. Meta is by definition a psychopathic authoritarian with an enormous force of „somewhat harmless“ people who will flood the servers and by their sheer number have the power to change anything they want.
Implying that lemmy is somehow better than other social media networks is equally silly. It’s not. It’s basically the exact same thing reddit is, with less people on it.
I want Lemmy to grow too but not at any cost. I’d rather have quality than quantity quite frankly.
Same.
I used TOR to log in to my FB account after years, just to see how my normie friends and family might be doing. They barely posted anything. It was just reposted ads.
My experience was also:
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Numerous unblockable “suggested for you” pages were all thot-videos that would get me fired if I worked in an office.
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FB marketplace, rife with scams.
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The company has been caught doing everything from enabling genocides to collecting data on children to making “shadow profiles” for people without accounts, to influencing elections.
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A single clicked link can hijack your account, evidenced by how many relatives send me private messages about a “friend that just got them a bunch of money.”
Yeah I’m more than happy having Lemmy have a basic intelligence barrier to entry, and making sure Meta suffocates if they try to zombify our platform with their accessibility + indoctrination strategy, like they have with entire countries.
Having a massive illiterate army that will do whatever you influence them to is nothing to sneeze at. (See: TikTok mobilizing their user base in the name of “free speech”)
If any living breathing person wants to come hang out with us on Lemmy / Mastodon / Pixelfed / etc… using any instance? I’m happy to walk them through it. There’s no “gatekeeping” any more than being required to read is gatekeeping the rest of society.
It’s been said the Fediverse feels like “the old internet”…exactly, when it was about expression, and anonymous handles, and not corporate and nation-state interests trying to mind control and profit off of alarmingly detailed profiles of the entire human population. Keep the board rooms out of our bedrooms.
Consider not disparaging people who use drugs or those who are finished served their time in jail. Drug use is innate across the human species, and ex convicts should be fully integrated with the community as full citizens.
