Meh... just another reason added to a looong list about why I never looked back after switching to Linux, back when Vista was introduced.

Funny. They can try. I'm not as dependant on their platform as they wish-think. I'll find other ways or other platforms.

This.

It's like that with many instances. They ask you to fill out a form, answer questions or something similar to make sure you're not some spam-bot. That's it.

Thank you for enabling us to be here. Keep up the good work!

I'm quite curious as to how many will actually turn up here. I guess we'll see.

I think it'll take some time until these apps become that andvanced. Most lemmy apps are in a pretty early stage of developement and still highly WIP.

Some third party reddit apps seem to be planning on moving to lemmy, so maybe we'll see something better coming around the corner in the near future.

Good idea. Kind of like guerilla-marketing.

Still using heavily encrypted, self-hosted XMPP to talk to my family without META.

Even if they somehow manage to drag the majority of users over to their platform, we'll still have our little free haven.

Better a weak filter than none at all, I guess. They're not some multi-billion dollar corporation with the means to assign a lot of funds for spam mitigation.

Yep. My only concern about Meta joining the Fediverse through ActivityPub is privacy related.

Any federated instance can read any other federated instance, their users and what they do or what they talk about. A perfect victim for Meta's ad-targeting data siphon.

Yes, it's called defederation.

But VLemmy hasn't blocked any other instance, to my knowledge. Seems like they want to let us users decide what we block.

It's public data to some degree.

It's a whole other thing when they can see what an admin of an instance can see.

Already? Thank you and keep up the good work!

Any admin from any instance can as long as both instances are federated with each other.

Say I upvote something on lemmy.ml, then the admins of every instance federated with lemmy.ml can see it in their logs.

Doesn't seem bad? It can be if someone collects this data en masse to feed some ad-algorithm with it. Or much worse, an adversary gets this data to target people based on their opinions, to dox them, etcetera.

Good to know.

Yeah, devs like these have the perfect kind of experience considering UI/UX developement to get this done well.

That's the last, worst step... Installing any Meta app on your device, making it a de facto telescreen.

True. Still worth fighting.

It's a known bug or at least it happens often.

Interacting with the community like upvoting something, clicking "create a post" and returning can fix this most of the time. I'd assume it will be fixed with the next update.

Me too. I check (ir-)regularly if any instances got defederated.

But I think even if it happens, they would inform us. Communication from the admins regarding changes seems very good.

EDIT: You can check it for yourself over here. It doesn't show exactly which instances are blocked, but it helps.

EDIT 2: Better check VLemmy's instance page directly. Blocked instances should be listed in there, if there will be any. Last link led to outdated information.

Pretty sure it's possible or there are other options. But you'd probably have to invest a lot of work and time to make it work.

For most people it isn't worth the effort, which I understand.