No it’s real simple, you lot act like these big tech companies are evil personified but happily look the other way or hand out whataboutism out like candy when it is some group, institution or ideology you support doing the same or even more fucked up shit.
Bunch of delusional fanatics.
Are you seriously comparing systemic rape and abuse to your “big company bad” ideology?
That’s fucked up.
I literally host my own email without issue. And this thread is about defederating from a large company.
Literally the sentiment of this thread is about exclusion without reason beyond “big is bad” ideology.
So what the fuck are you talking about?
No, you literally said that Facebook is evil, because you said, with grammatically corrections “Facebook is against freedom”. And don’t try to argue that this is a difference or semantic.
Facebook doesn’t give a shit about your ideology, it only wants likes because that improves its influence. Be that capitalism’s influence or socialists influence.
Brownouts are not the same as shutting down the grid mate.
SA has rolling brownouts because the grid cannot handle the demand. My example is that the whole grid shuts down. No country has ever done this.
“An enemy of freedom”. 🙄
I mean can you be more cliche?
Or maybe, out of the 3 Billion active users on Facebook each month, you, and many others, are focused on fucked up shit. Because, shock and horror, everyone is gripped by the propaganda of the group. Welcome to being part of a biological social species.
Just for a moment consider the following. Facebook priorities posts that get engagement, they don’t care about morality and fairness and they won’t stop untill it is illegal to do so.
I don’t absolve them of their responsibility, but you attributed malicious intent when stupidity and profit is only needed.
4chan in the early days was just trolls wanting to piss people off. Apart from the occasional post that was truely fucked up, which the community generally made sure the authorities found out who made it.
The current landscape is a bunch of people all wanting to circle jerk themselves to feel virtuous.
The world is just a fucking pathetic eco-chamber now. And I’m a flirty whore for engaging in it.
Thanks for the ironic reply.
Whataboutism indeed. 🙄
Oh for fuck sake, can you to stop with the “what about XMPP” bullshit please?
The fucking protocol still exists. And none of you bandwagoning twats use it. But you constantly talk about it like it was stolen from you. In reality you don’t know what it is and use it as a strawman for your arguments.
Right now, download any number of XMPP clients and start using the protocol.
You don’t because you are part of the “big is bad” elitism trope. Just a bunch of pathetic wannabe underground elitist.
No you are actually missing the point. If you are on lemmy.your.opinion, then Facebook is not going to be the most prevalent voice unless the rest of the people on your opinion instance support the posts coming from Facebook.
That’s why when you log into your instance, you mainly see feeds from your Instance. You cannot “game” an algorithm you don’t control.
Your fear comes from the influence the mainstream social media platforms weld. And they weld it because of their homogeneous control over their platforms.
The more you try to exclude them the easier it is for them to exclude the smaller players.
You exclude Facebook, then Google, then Microsoft, then Twitter. Then they all band together to push out the rest of us and then you lose another open protocol to absorption or subversion.
I’ll call it now, this is how it will go down. Just like all the other open protocols I’ve seen over the last 25 years… Technically savvy people push back on general adoption because we are generally snobs and elitists.
It’s only the biggest influence on specific instances, if the people in those instances engage with them.
The key difference is if you defederate just because “big is bad” ideology then the whole premise of federated services becomes irrelevant, because as soon as any instance gets too big it will be defederated.
Literally every part of critical infrastructure has been connected to the internet.
No internet means no water, electricity, emergency services, financial services, waste management…
It’s the digital rod for our modern back.
If I name instances in the ML sphere posting clearly anti western propaganda, hate speech and the questionable impartiality of rule enforcement in the fediverse, are you going to cry foul?
That would be because bandwagoning is the lowest form of virtue signalling.
All things that exist already in Lemmy.
And only admins of an instance could artificially prioritise posts on the fediverse, and only on their instance.
Bots, shills and bad actors exist on all platforms to inflate posts and opinions.
And advocating for open standards while excluding platforms because “big company bad” ideology is naivety.
Oh look, more elitism posts.
So you want an alternative to large closed source proprietary platforms, but don’t want to allow anyone who doesn’t use it via a “preapproved” list of providers?
The level of irony in these posts is astounding.
This elitism bandwagoning hurts the goal of providing alternatives to closed source proprietary platforms for social media.
If you want an open and viable alternative to proprietary platforms running social media then you must have a willingness to include those who want to be part of said platforms.
This is literally impossible to do without total economic and social collapse. It’s like saying you are going to shut off the electrical grid.
Moronic statements made by moronic people who don’t understand what the internet is and think internet = websites.
That’s literally like saying Victorinox helps support crime because people who commit crime sometimes use knives.
You are literally washing over the fact that this atrocity was fuelled and perpetrated by religious fanatics and corrupted governments.
Literally the only part which speaks about Facebook is that “social media may have helped spread the violent message” and that Facebook refused to share user data with investigators. Which without a warrant is standard practice.
You are doing the equivalent of putting pictures on a board and drawing strings between them.