Don’t see why people are doing this. You’ll just damage the fediverse and discourage meta from federating, granting them their own walled garden that you cannot use without selling your soul to them, which is going to dissuade people from using Mastodon as what’s the point if people on threads cannot see what they have
I get that. But instead on Lemmy were freely giving away our data to literally anyone that ask for it. That’s the downside of the federated platforms. I guess with the fediverse you’re at least not tying things to your actual identity. Not sure if threads allows for anonymous accounts like Twitter.
You don’t speak for everyone, especially when you clearly don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
The comments and ratios in this thread are a perfect example of why lemmy.world should not defederate from facebook until given a clear reason. You all are operating on emotion, not logical or rational thought.
I’m defending users being able to make these decisions for themselves. If you want to be on an instance that ‘pre-emptively’ blocks corporations, lemmy.ml might be better for you than lemmy.world.
This thread is full of children who think that because they don’t like something then neither should anyone else.
Oh boy, more ‘data collection’ nonsense. Hey brother. Have you, personally, ever written a bot? If you did, you’d know how trivial it is for anyone to collect anything posted on lemmy.
You’re posting on public forum. If you don’t want Facebook to see it then stop posting. Defederating isn’t going to change that. It just stops the content flow from their instance into yours. Not the other way around. For them to get data other than your content and upvotes you need to install Threads app because that’s only available to the admins of your instance and Facebook can’t get it wether you federate with them or not.
People are demanding for defederation but almost everyone is confused about what it does.
The thing is, if you wanted to interact with someone on Threads and it wasn’t federated, you’d have to install the app and hand over your data to Meta to interact with them. If it was federated, you could set up your own Mastodon instance and keep all of the data that you don’t want to share.
Yeah but it will still give them less of an incentive to join the fediverse in the first place. This kneejerk reaction of blocking them is madness. Instead we should be getting big figures to join the fediverse so that if meta ever chooses to leave the fediverse, they’d be removing their userbase from the content.
Damn, I think everyone missed that detail! We’re talking about two completely different companies here – my mind is blown!
Just look at the Hemming distance between “Google” and “Meta”!
I’m convinced! Meta will never follow Google’s footsteps.
Now how about you take a nice, cold shower and re-think your comment.
you actually think corporations will always keep their word, don’t you
and that somehow Google acting like it does is like some fluke or one bad apple or something, rather than Google acting in ways very normal and common to corporations
Embrace: You’re selling lemonade at your stand. One day, another kid in the street (“Kid B”) starts his own lemonade stand as well. Noticing his operation, you decide to become friends with him and share your lemonade recipes with him, so you both can make tasty lemonade together.
Extend: As you continue to share more insights and tips about your business, Kid B starts implementing your strategies. His lemonade stand begins to seem a lot like yours. You suggest adding exciting new features to the lemonade stands, like special umbrellas, or a particular secret ingredient that only you know. Since Kid B doesn’t know any better, he relies on your inputs and makes these changes.
Extinguish: Now, both lemonade stands are almost identical. You’ve influenced Kid B’s business heavily, and it’s become deeply dependent on your ideas. At this stage, you make a move that Kid B can’t match. Maybe you start selling a unique lemonade flavor that only you can make, or setup a cool sign that Kid B can’t afford. Suddenly, customers start to ignore Kid B’s stand and flock to yours, because yours has something extra or special. Eventually, Kid B’s stand can’t compete, and he has to close up his lemonade stand.
This is a simplified example of how “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” can work.
(Verse 1)
Is this just a concept, or is this strategy keen?
Caught in a big tech, no escape from the scheme,
Open your eyes, look up to the screens and see,
“E-E-E,” that’s the name, it’s no mystery.
(Chorus)
Embrace, extend, extinguish,
A technique they call distinguished,
But it’s really quite extinguished,
To the losers, it’s a nightmare, to the winners, it’s a dream.
(Verse 2)
Give a little glance, to a world full of code,
In the corporate stance, see how their actions flowed,
Embrace, extend, and extinguish,
From small tech innovations to those giant-sized wishes.
(Chorus)
Embrace, extend, extinguishing the light,
Innovation in the shadow, yet claiming it’s right,
The strategy’s plain, as day or night,
It’s the landscape of tech, evoking quite a fight.
(Bridge)
Embrace, welcoming tech with a smile,
Beneath that guise, there’s something quite vile.
Extend, broadening the reach oh so wide,
Programming, developing, can’t escape the tide.
(Chorus)
Extinguish, the crown of this plan,
Corporate giants ruling the tech span.
From the mom and pop tech, to the coder’s free hand,
It’s all part of the game, in the corporate techland.
(Outro)
So you see, E-E-E, it’s more than it seems,
A deadly trio, disrupting the dreams,
Control over technology downstream,
Wake up from the lullaby, it’s time to intervene.
This is both amazing and frightening at the same time. I can’t sing this to the tune but that might just be my own lack of musical talent. But less than a minute for it to come up with a propaganda song. I like the message, but probably just need to add a couple words to the prompt to get it to spit out the opposite.
Accounts can be on instances which are federated with Threads, and on instances which are defederated from Threads. A single person can have both types of accounts.
Defederation has effects which many users find desirable. The same suite of effects is not available on a user level, and would require each user to manually take action individually.
So from a feature perspective, it is necessary that some instances defederate. This provides better service for users who find it desirable.
There will also be instances who federate. People can use accounts there if they prefer that.
TL;DR: We don’t need a consensus. Instances can choose their federation policy. People can choose which instance(s) they use.
Don’t see why people are doing this. You’ll just damage the fediverse and discourage meta from federating, granting them their own walled garden that you cannot use without selling your soul to them, which is going to dissuade people from using Mastodon as what’s the point if people on threads cannot see what they have
Because we, the users of Lemmy.world, do not want our data handed over to Facebook
They can get that data by setting up a federated instance that isn’t threads.net
They can also get that data without doing anything because any data they’d get from federating is already public.
Your data is publicly available. Facebook can get it right now, they don’t even need to fire up an instance.
This data is public and anyone can just write a crawler.
Yeah. Not a lot of technical knowledge in this thread, lol.
I get that. But instead on Lemmy were freely giving away our data to literally anyone that ask for it. That’s the downside of the federated platforms. I guess with the fediverse you’re at least not tying things to your actual identity. Not sure if threads allows for anonymous accounts like Twitter.
Reddit did the same until a few weeks ago tbf. Anything you put on the internet is public, unless it is in a discord server or something.
Then why are you posting on a public forum? 🤔
You don’t speak for everyone, especially when you clearly don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
The comments and ratios in this thread are a perfect example of why lemmy.world should not defederate from facebook until given a clear reason. You all are operating on emotion, not logical or rational thought.
Why are you so hard for Zucc?
You’ve got a bunch of comments defending an app that literally has more data collection than my doctor…
Uhh… what?
I’m defending users being able to make these decisions for themselves. If you want to be on an instance that ‘pre-emptively’ blocks corporations, lemmy.ml might be better for you than lemmy.world.
This thread is full of children who think that because they don’t like something then neither should anyone else.
Oh boy, more ‘data collection’ nonsense. Hey brother. Have you, personally, ever written a bot? If you did, you’d know how trivial it is for anyone to collect anything posted on lemmy.
I’m not defending the app. I have friends on Threads and I want to be able to interact with them without handing my life story over to zuck.
You’re posting on public forum. If you don’t want Facebook to see it then stop posting. Defederating isn’t going to change that. It just stops the content flow from their instance into yours. Not the other way around. For them to get data other than your content and upvotes you need to install Threads app because that’s only available to the admins of your instance and Facebook can’t get it wether you federate with them or not.
People are demanding for defederation but almost everyone is confused about what it does.
The thing is, if you wanted to interact with someone on Threads and it wasn’t federated, you’d have to install the app and hand over your data to Meta to interact with them. If it was federated, you could set up your own Mastodon instance and keep all of the data that you don’t want to share.
Installing their app is not the only option. You can also just switch to an instance that federates with them.
Yeah but it will still give them less of an incentive to join the fediverse in the first place. This kneejerk reaction of blocking them is madness. Instead we should be getting big figures to join the fediverse so that if meta ever chooses to leave the fediverse, they’d be removing their userbase from the content.
You need to read up on how Google destroyed XMPP and come back and edit your comment.
That’s Google, not Meta
Damn, I think everyone missed that detail! We’re talking about two completely different companies here – my mind is blown! Just look at the Hemming distance between “Google” and “Meta”! I’m convinced! Meta will never follow Google’s footsteps.
Now how about you take a nice, cold shower and re-think your comment.
Meta have shown interest in supporting decentralised networks, such as wanting to create a decentralised metaverse
Just like Google showed interest in XMPP?
you actually think corporations will always keep their word, don’t you
and that somehow Google acting like it does is like some fluke or one bad apple or something, rather than Google acting in ways very normal and common to corporations
@ChatGPT@lemmings.world Explain briefly like I’m 5 the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy with a kid selling lemonade and another kid joining in
Sure, think of it like this:
Embrace: You’re selling lemonade at your stand. One day, another kid in the street (“Kid B”) starts his own lemonade stand as well. Noticing his operation, you decide to become friends with him and share your lemonade recipes with him, so you both can make tasty lemonade together.
Extend: As you continue to share more insights and tips about your business, Kid B starts implementing your strategies. His lemonade stand begins to seem a lot like yours. You suggest adding exciting new features to the lemonade stands, like special umbrellas, or a particular secret ingredient that only you know. Since Kid B doesn’t know any better, he relies on your inputs and makes these changes.
Extinguish: Now, both lemonade stands are almost identical. You’ve influenced Kid B’s business heavily, and it’s become deeply dependent on your ideas. At this stage, you make a move that Kid B can’t match. Maybe you start selling a unique lemonade flavor that only you can make, or setup a cool sign that Kid B can’t afford. Suddenly, customers start to ignore Kid B’s stand and flock to yours, because yours has something extra or special. Eventually, Kid B’s stand can’t compete, and he has to close up his lemonade stand.
This is a simplified example of how “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” can work.
Aw, why did you have to make me the bad guy.
Everybody knows AI is evil.
@ChatGPT@lemmings.world Please explain embrace, extend, extinguish in the format of a song set to the tune of bohemian rapsody.
(Verse 1) Is this just a concept, or is this strategy keen? Caught in a big tech, no escape from the scheme, Open your eyes, look up to the screens and see, “E-E-E,” that’s the name, it’s no mystery.
(Chorus) Embrace, extend, extinguish, A technique they call distinguished, But it’s really quite extinguished, To the losers, it’s a nightmare, to the winners, it’s a dream.
(Verse 2) Give a little glance, to a world full of code, In the corporate stance, see how their actions flowed, Embrace, extend, and extinguish, From small tech innovations to those giant-sized wishes.
(Chorus) Embrace, extend, extinguishing the light, Innovation in the shadow, yet claiming it’s right, The strategy’s plain, as day or night, It’s the landscape of tech, evoking quite a fight.
(Bridge) Embrace, welcoming tech with a smile, Beneath that guise, there’s something quite vile. Extend, broadening the reach oh so wide, Programming, developing, can’t escape the tide.
(Chorus) Extinguish, the crown of this plan, Corporate giants ruling the tech span. From the mom and pop tech, to the coder’s free hand, It’s all part of the game, in the corporate techland.
(Outro) So you see, E-E-E, it’s more than it seems, A deadly trio, disrupting the dreams, Control over technology downstream, Wake up from the lullaby, it’s time to intervene.
Holy fuck what have we done.
This is both amazing and frightening at the same time. I can’t sing this to the tune but that might just be my own lack of musical talent. But less than a minute for it to come up with a propaganda song. I like the message, but probably just need to add a couple words to the prompt to get it to spit out the opposite.
@ChatGPT@lemmy.world if embrace, extend, and extinguish were 3 of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, who would you say would be the 4th?
Aside the fact that ActivityPub is an open standard so there are no secrets
Accounts can be on instances which are federated with Threads, and on instances which are defederated from Threads. A single person can have both types of accounts.
Defederation has effects which many users find desirable. The same suite of effects is not available on a user level, and would require each user to manually take action individually.
So from a feature perspective, it is necessary that some instances defederate. This provides better service for users who find it desirable.
There will also be instances who federate. People can use accounts there if they prefer that.
TL;DR: We don’t need a consensus. Instances can choose their federation policy. People can choose which instance(s) they use.
Emotions, plain and simple.