• MaggiWuerze@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    How would they pressure admins? Threaten not to take their instances data and put ads on it? What leverage has Meta here?

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      They will very soon have the largest userbase of any instance. If your instance gets blocked by Meta, your users suddenly have a fraction of the reach because no Meta people can see your posts anymore. That would put a lot of pressure on admins I imagine.

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          If the other instances federate with Meta’s you won’t have a choice. Content from Meta users will be pouring in.

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            Sort of, you don’t have to subscribe to their communities or follow users from Meta. We don’t want to talk with Facebook users, that’s not why we’re here. There isn’t a single person on Facebook who would feel disrupted if they suddenly didn’t see my content anymore, either.

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          Me too and I don’t think it’ll be a threat to Lemmy but on Mastodon, there are a lot of old people who already use Meta platforms themselves.

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      I was thinking the absolute worst case scenario is a bad faith use of the regulatory laws aimed at Meta but put on a firehose and aimed at federated servers who don’t prostrate before them.

      Things like partnering with copyright holders for automated DMCA floods for literally all images on the instance that have copyrighted content visible.