If I wanted to see facebook shit I would use facebook, I stopped using whatsapp when it was bought by facebook, I don't want to see their content overwhelming the fediverse, that's why I'm here instead of there.

[–] fross@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't agree with this notion of "facebook content" vs "fediverse" content or anything like that. Content is just content, it's links, it's media, whatever. It's not "facebook shit" any more than reddit shit or lemmy shit. Content is a by-product of the users, so who/what the userbase is is extremely important - and that is why how it is marketed, who it appeals to and so forth, and the relative scale. thousands of lemmy users being drowned out by millions of Threads users, who are a different demographic, have different goals for the platform, and so forth, is the real issue.

You acknowledge that you have moved on from platforms when facebook/meta have got involved, and you're welcome to take your decisions on this, but it runs into problems in a federated environment where the goal is to increase interoperability by default.

Don't get me wrong, I think our goals are the same, to have an environment where people can talk and share links that is relatively exclusive / for like-minded people. I just don't think the angle of facebook/not facebook is the right one (tbh I would go further - I would not integrate, but not because of the provenance/company, but because of the users' expectations coming over from Threads)

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Content is just content, it’s links, it’s media, whatever

Content is not all the same, there's quality content and there's shitposting.

"facebook content" is mostly - to me - shitposting, astroturfing, botting, propaganda, etc. as reddit has become lately, while lemmy content is mostly quality discussions.

I don't want shitposting burying quality content here, that's what will happen if we don't do anything about it.

Not to mention corporate control, look what happened to reddit, and look at how many scandals there are about faceboook (now meta) as a company, why do you think they want to join the fediverse, they don't give a crap about quality, their only interest is in monetizing stuff, embrace - extend - extinguish, I don't want ANY of that happening to lemmy.

[–] fross@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with all of this.

[–] Millie@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's see if you feel that way when your feed is filled with hate and ads.

[–] fross@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think you didn't understand my comment. " thousands of lemmy users being drowned out by millions of Threads users, who are a different demographic, have different goals for the platform" specifically.