The fact that Lemmy is being hacked is a sign Lemmy is becoming big. This is a great thing, but mass adoption should still be refrained from, as we have seen it with reddit and Big Tech platforms.

Facebook, Google, Apple, Zoom and others’ chat platforms are made out of defederated XMPP, being the reason XMPP, a federated chat protocol itself, has never become popular in the past 20 years.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is a tactic Western capitalist tech companies use to exploit open source technologies for profits and control over society.

I have seen plenty apologists for Facebook/Twitter federation on Lemmy instances. Do not underestimate the enemy.

I feel the same. Lemmy.world has demonstrated itself as a popular Lemmy instance, like a huge playground, but Facebook instances must be given the boot. I am okay with seeing myself out of here, if it does not happen. Being on lemmy.ml for years, I will have zero issues doing that.

Oh no, did I trigger you? You are going around this thread like a Discord representative, doing something very funny, and expect no confrontation? I became a Discord user most likely before you ever heard of it. Discord is a realtime chatroom, and its “threads” feature is far more niche than Telegram’s equivalent. It is not a Reddit or Lemmy equivalent.

Moreover, I am using the internet since Windows 95 days, so I am a fairly old user of forums, chatrooms and various internet spaces, as well as moderated enough, so try not to teach me how internet spaces work.

To give more nuance to the internet, the internet users require that information be accessible and not hostage to the sands of time, or gatekept by a platform demanding user account usage. This is why Reddit users can still search threads from 10-15 years ago and still get the information. This is why forums from 20 years ago can be searched for information even today. Discord will never do this.

Why are you again mad about me shitting on Discord because it NOT an alternative to public discussion forums, dangblingus?

Power hungry. Having power over others is as important as blood in their veins, and oxygen to their lungs.

Last year, u/carrotcypher, a power mod of multiple privacy subreddits, spoke the quiet bits out loud. I archived it. (Just Ctrl+F his name on webpage if needed.) http://web.archive.org/web/20220501175544/https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/thikeo/lets_use_lemmy_instead_of_reddit_centralization/i18h6ai/

This month, carrotcypher and fellow r/opensource moderators refused to protest and sided with Reddit admins. You can look at their comments. https://web.archive.org/web/20230608164944/old.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1425luc/reddits_thirdparty_app_api_changes_and_ropensource/

carrotcypher opened his trashcan mouth again few days ago, calling the protestors “too collectivist and noisy atm”. https://old.reddit.com/r/gdpr/comments/14763xl/rgdpr_will_be_unavailable_starting_june_12th_due/jnu4rno?context=3

These are the crabs of the society. Whackamole and leave them behind, if they try to pull you down.

Can I search those publicly without a Discord account 8-10 years down the line?