I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      11 months ago

      at this point I can only assume that people who have a problem with defederating from Meta are either Meta trolls or lack the cognitive abilities to participate in the fediverse and we’ll have to live without their participation.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        41·
        11 months ago

        I can only assume that people who have a problem with defederating from Meta are either Meta trolls or lack the cognitive abilities to participate

        Anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot and I can be rude to them and ignore them

      • thoughtorgan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        11 months ago

        Do you always assume other people’s opinions are completely invalid after you’ve dug your feet in?

    • kase@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Exactly, EEE is a big part of what convinced me. It’s not about a circle jerk or excluding anyone, and I welcome threads users to make accounts and create instances here.