Crossposted this in case of takedown. Hope this isn’t breaking the rules.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1370464

Original Title: At least one lemmy.world admin accepted an off the record meeting with meta, and they won’t tell you about it.

Edit: I cannot confirm if the Original OP is telling the truth or lying, figured I wanted more people to see this so you can decide for yourselves who to believe.

Edit 2: Archived Link: https://archive.is/aJrnU

Edit 3: Hmm… Interesting… The original post was taken down instead of admins making a response. I mean, if I were an admin with nothing to hide, I’d just simply say “I did not have a secret meeting with anyone representing Meta/Facebook” then maybe lock the thread if stuff gets too out of hand. Deleting a post is not the right thing to do, and even if you are innocent, now you just made yourself look bad.

Archive Link of where the page was, now showing an error message: https://archive.is/5BWIw

Don’t belive me? Ask them.

Fosstodon admins were at least transparent and shared with their community when they were approached by meta for an off the record meeting, which was awesome. They also declined that meeting and shared screenshots of them doing so.

But lemmy.world admins won’t tell you that at least one of them accepted that same meeting request. Why won’t they say that?

Tell your community that you accepted a meeting with meta. Thats not wrong in and of itself, but I feel it is shady/not right when you’re communicating about a wait-and-see approach, while having meetings with the company in question yet not being transparent about it.

@ruud@lemmy.world care to comment?

Also, I’m spinning up my own instance because I don’t trust this platform to folks who aren’t transparent. Don’t ask me to join, it’s going to be just for me for now. I don’t even know that I have time to admin an instance, but my trust is wearing thin based on the facts at hand. So, it’s what I’m doing.

  • nekat_emanresu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    68·
    1 year ago

    If you don’t like pizza, don’t go into a pizza shop and tell them to shut up about pizza? You coulda downvoted and moved on.

    • handhookcardoor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      No, but if I go to a site that I enjoy, and I see people constantly removed and complaining about a single issue that we’ve all been over already, and I think maybe it’s enough?

      We can make better content than this.

      • nekat_emanresu@lemmy.mlEnglish
        32·
        1 year ago

        There are honorable easy to talk about complaints, and there are dishonorable annoying people that can’t be reasoned with. The issue would be resolved in a minute if both parties were civil. This is an existential threat for lemmy.

    • Rhoeri@lemmy.mlEnglish
      82·
      1 year ago

      Such a horrible analogy. How about-

      If you LIKE pizza, and don’t like people making up bullshit unprovable stories about it- they should be sent packing.

      This is a bullshit story without any substance or merit. It should be dismissed, and those staring the bullshit should be called out.

      • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        I’ve seen your username all over this thread and every single one of your comments was unpleasant. Yet you accused others of “stirring the pot” and “starting drama”. I don’t have an opinion one way or the other, I wasn’t even going to comment, but I thought that you needed to be called out.

    • Anoril@sh.itjust.works
      English
      2·
      1 year ago

      Strange. I remember someone advertised lemmy to me as reddit alternative. Turns out, its place for circlejerk and being afraid of facebook.

          • nekat_emanresu@lemmy.mlEnglish
            32·
            1 year ago

            It’d be sweet if people learned more and talked less, then they would have realised the nazis bad, and the end of the world wont happen because of that silly prediction.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook

            https://www.abc.net.au/religion/facebook-complicity-in-the-rohingya-genocide/13737882

            I haven’t fully verified those two, but they give a hint. If you’d like to stop assuming and start understanding why some people are deeply worried then you can try and learn.

            • Anoril@sh.itjust.works
              English
              21·
              1 year ago

              Dont worry. Its entertaining enough for me that people were hyping lemmy and fediverse so much, and it turns out its all gonna crumble on itself the moment anyone big will join the hype lol. Makes it seem like it forever will be obscure place at the corner of the internet with decade old memes and circlejerk how good it is that nobody knows about them.

              Dont worry, i know that facebook is shit. Allthough your second link is bullshit too, considering that it boils to “how dares facebook not being more initiative to censor itself”. Itsjob of tge government to enforce censorshipon facebook, not the other way around. Still, most criticism is focussed around privacy and if people are afraid for their data, they shouldnt post it on public forums in the first place.

              Wonder whats next gonna be the danger for fediverse? Maybe lemmy.world getting too big? As you see maybe you already cant trust people who run it, maybe instances should defederate from it while its not too late?

              • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                21·
                1 year ago

                You mean it was the job of a government that, among other things, removed the Rohingya peoples citizenship, to censor Facebook here?

                You literally have no idea what you’re talking about. International human rights watchdogs were the ones criticising facebook. Not blaming them either, but pointing out their complicity.