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[–] _lunar@lemmy.ml 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

we fucking said this would happen and this dumb asshole refused to defederate on the flagship instance anyway

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 5 points 8 hours ago

Call me psychic. And he really is an asshole

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 19 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Meta moderation was a dumpster fire before this, I can only imagine how bad it's going to get.

Currently they have blatant misinformation everywhere posted as real news, people read the stuff and believe it fully. It should be illegal - people are just too stupid to know Facebook is just a modern tabloid magazine.

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 9 points 14 hours ago

Years ago I reported the same account for bullying the same person, every time FB came back saying “no issues found”. The site is fucked, and blatantly has been so for years. But it was recently pointed out to me it has been since the start. He’s not a nice guy.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Tabloid magazine? ... it's more like scribbled pieces of paper written by random strangers on the sidewalk ... people keep reading the crap and walk away happy that their worst beliefs have just been confirmed by 100 random strangers with scribbled pieces of paper who told them so.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Corporate fediverse isnt true fediverse

[–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, when my Lemmy server goes down I don’t want it to be because of a large scale cyber attack, I want it to be because some dude’s dog got the zoomies in the basement and tripped on a cable.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 108 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn! If only someone could've predicted that Meta would eventually do something stupid like this! If only we had defederated from them from the start /s

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 9 points 13 hours ago

But nobody could have seen that coming! /s

https://fedipact.online/

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 day ago

That’s my secret, Captain, I’m always defederated from corporate social media.

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 36 points 1 day ago (7 children)

How can a decentralized platform have a CEO?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 9 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Who wants to be CEO of lemmy btw? You'll have no power over anything, but we can call you that from now on as a joke.

[–] reptar@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago
[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 16 hours ago
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 100 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (23 children)

You recognize that Mastodon, the software, is developed by a non-profit called Mastodon gGmbH?

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 28 points 20 hours ago

Actually I was not aware of that, thank you for telling me.

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[–] yozul@beehaw.org 15 points 23 hours ago

Because there's a company that makes the software used to run a Mastodon instance. Same way Mozilla has a CEO even though they're not in charge of the internet.

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