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.
This is like saying “my email provider should block all emails from Gmail”.
And they can hoover your data right now. Like, you think bots aren’t spidering the site already? It’s a public website.
We do this all the time. Email providers block millions of domains for spam.
I don’t see any spam from threads.net.
I consider most content on Facebook owned sites to be useless spam.
Not yet anyway. I wouldn’t expect that to stay the same forever though. Especially considering the amount of spam that’s already on Facebook.
Facebook does not have good very good moderation on their platforms (it’s only good enough to keep up their image in the public eye), and I don’t think threads will be an exception to that.
I feel like it’ll probably be one of the bigger sources of spam and hate speech on the Fediverse, at least for servers that don’t block it.
Well gmail already blocks any non cabal emailaddresss so yeah we should all block gmail.
I’ve got my own SMTP server set up on a VPS and I can send to GMail addresses just fine. Am I part of the “cabal”?
Is the cabal in the room with us right now?
That’s entirely different. As an individual, I have the choice to send emails to, or block emails from, Gmail.com.
But on Lemmy, if I am on an instance that federates with Threads, and I don’t want Threads.net to get a copy of my content or posts (or have my content or posts show up on Threads.net in the future), then tough shit for me, my only option is to either go silent or move to an instance that has defederated from Threads.
People keep making the email argument, but it is not the same thing at all. I don’t think it’s fair for a large percentage of lemmy.world’s users to not have a voice in a decision that will absolutely impact them, nor is it fair to have a stance of “then leave then.”
If a user blocks a domain I suppose their content isn’t send to that server anymore I hope?
Nope Lemmy’s blocking system is cosmetic only. It’s very much useless against defending from real malicious users. I assume the purpose it was built for was under the assumption that it was going to be used exclusively by easily offended snowflakes, which is backed up by the way that most users treat a person’s claims regarding a malicious user or malicious instance.
It is. The user just won’t see any content from the server they blocked.
They won’t see any communities from the server they block. Users are not blocked in domain blocking.
How do you know? We should fix this on the software level.