This has come to mind because all the chatter about Meta federating.
I see a lot of people saying they’d love to have that type of content here when Meta federates, and that those will be the best instances because they will have the most content, but they will still be accessible without compromising their privacy.
I truly don’t get this.
I’m not here for mass-produced content, if I wanted that, I’d be in other platforms. The beauty of these communities is they are not filled with posts that are all the same, algorithms and bots. It’s just a community of real people having conversations.
If you want mass-produced trendy content, please, consume it elsewhere, and when you are inevitably fed up, then come here and enjoy the slow-paced, real community.
PD: I hope this doesn’t come across as wall-keeping (or however it’s said lol), It’s my honest opinion.
The issue i have is that it’s entirely possible to de-federate client side in mastodon, so that only you personally don’t see content from meta, yet despite this there’s mastodon instances de-federating server side and making that decision for all users, regardless of what they wanted, its just the instance owners opinion/ideologies that are respected.
I think it should be the user who decides, rather than having it decided for them. Also whilst you personally may not like the change, im sure there’s people who would, or people who want an excuse to actually be able to ditch meta’s instance and come to kbin, mastodon or lemmy, but we’re making that really hard for them by forcing them into meta’s instance due to our de-federation.
Defederating client side also appears to be somewhat possible in kbin, but I think stuff like comments will still show regardless, so in that case it’s more understandable.
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The issue i have is that it’s entirely possible to de-federate client side in mastodon, so that only you personally don’t see content from meta, yet despite this there’s mastodon instances de-federating server side and making that decision for all users, regardless of what they wanted, its just the instance owners opinion/ideologies that are respected.
I think it should be the user who decides, rather than having it decided for them. Also whilst you personally may not like the change, im sure there’s people who would, or people who want an excuse to actually be able to ditch meta’s instance and come to kbin, mastodon or lemmy, but we’re making that really hard for them by forcing them into meta’s instance due to our de-federation.
Defederating client side also appears to be somewhat possible in kbin, but I think stuff like comments will still show regardless, so in that case it’s more understandable.
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