I personally am quite against it. I joined Lemmy to stay away from the toxicity on Meta’s platforms. I don’t want any corporate bodies on the fediverse either and possibly doing to the fediverse what Google did to XMPP

  • circuitfarmer
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    681 year ago

    Seems clear to me that Facebook should have no other interest in this other than ultimately making money. Thus it is antithetical to Lemmy and the fediverse in general, and should be treated as such.

    • Xeelee
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      31 year ago

      I don’t think they’re there to make money. They want to take over the place and then absorb it in other to eliminate competition. Which is what they’ve always been doing.

      • im stuff
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        71 year ago

        elimining competition is kind of totally a tactic to make money dude 👍

      • circuitfarmer
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        11 year ago

        I mean, yeah, the end game there is to make money. They don’t want to take it over for brownie points.

    • fbievan
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      21 year ago

      Not really, they’re businesses that sell fediverse hosting, right?

      • Norah - She/They
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        91 year ago

        While I’m sure that one-click hosting for fediverse instances exist, I’d imagine most instance admins would be using general dedicated server hosting. It would allow for finer control of the backend.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          My main mastodon uses one of the hosted services, which I’m totally fine with. Moderating a community is hard enough without adding extra sysadmin work on top, and I’m happy to donate towards the running costs whatever way the admins choose is best to run it.