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submitted 1 year ago by archchan@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.

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[-] JRepin@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Judging from their past and all the bad actions they have done in the past, bad for democracy, privacy, minorities and marginalised people and how openly they have a far/extreme-right bias. Well I feel extremely negative about them joining in. They were also part of destruction of another open/federated protocol in the past: they played big part in destroying XMPP/Jabber messaging. So I am afraid they will do their usual embrace, extend, and extinguish thing and their surveillance capitalist thing and yeah. no good. Best to block their instances outright.

[-] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I was going to say, while we can't do Mich about them adopting an open protocol, please defederate with them

[-] Terevos@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ack. I just said almost the same thing before I read your comment.

[-] Bjoern_Tantau@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I was thinking of Jabber as well, when I heard this. For a brief period everything was perfect. Facebook and Google were both using Jabber. And even WhatsApp was using it, I think. So if you had an account somewhere you could actually chat with all your friends, totally unimpeded.

EU should hurry up with their federation laws.

[-] wagesj45@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

you can still use XMPP. i use it, my family uses it.

hate facebook all you want (i certainly do) but dont act like normies would be living in a federated utopia without them. theyd be on whatever is closed source with the most number of people and the most advertising dollars behind it and the simplest user experience. normies like easy, and its hard to blame them.

[-] grus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

EU should hurry up with their federation laws.

What do you mean?

[-] zarasophos@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[-] grus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Holy shit! Had no idea! Thanks, mate.
Common EU W

The EU really are the protectors of the free and open internet. Given the Republicans would kill any attempts to pass any regulations here in the States, we're basically reliant on the EU to save us. So thanks, guys :)

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