cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/5028069

Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won't be evil, but let's be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can't be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

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    • carpoftruth [any, any]
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      6 months ago

      Social media sites develop the way economies do - contrast the growth of American industry with the global south post ww2. we need to protect domestic memes with tariffs and liberal bans, else we will find ourselves turned into a meme extraction economy only existing to pipeline content into unproductive consumers in the Metapole.

      • Wheaties [comrade/them]
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        6 months ago

        that comparison should not work as well as it does, congratulations

        • carpoftruth [any, any]
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          6 months ago

          Yeah I was pretty blown away myself. I've been listening to hell of presidents lately so it was top of mind