That's a great way to put it, love the analogy too.

Totally, but it's not supposed to be that literal :)

Sticking up for Meta..lol.

you can still be civil

says the one calling me an asshole. Not sure you could invalidate yourself any faster here.

CMV: The people who want to receive data from Threads should just...make a freaking Threads account. The whole argument to connect with them at all is weird. It's like recording a Disney movie to your DVR box and setting up streaming from your smart TV to your tablet so you can now enjoy the movie you recorded in bed....when you could've just downloaded the freaking Disney+ app.

It's also (somehow) like when you're already in shorts and a t-shirt but still a little warm and someone else wants to turn the A/C off cause they're cold. They can put on more clothes and be totally comfy, I cannot (politely) take any more clothes off.

We kindly ask everyone to engage in civil discourse and remember that not everyone will share the same opinions, which is perfectly acceptable.

It's really actually not acceptable to ignore what a bad actor Facebook/Meta has been. Catch up on the news if you need to. Cambridge Analytica scandal, unwitting social experiments, and the insane amount of intrusive permissions required just to use threads etc. They've been anti-consumer in an almost dystopian way and failing to call that out is an immoral stance. There's really no polite way to say, "that's a hell no, fix your attitude, or I'm out." That people have characterized folks telling you this is a deal-breaker as "blackmail" is the absurd stance here. We're asking you to stay true to the anti-corporate "power to the people" spirit that created Lemmy in the first place and call out Meta for being an obviously bad actor in this space, as a bunch of Reddit refugees... You actually arguing against this and acting like "both sides are fine" about it is being completely tone-deaf and is 100% antithetical to the purpose of the fediverse.

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing." You've already committed to doing nothing during an important time with a "wait and see" attitude. Meta is still a face-eating leopard, a frog-stinging scorpion, or whatever analogy does it for ya. It's not a tough choice and there IS a right and wrong answer.

Starting to genuinely wonder if these folks aren't paid corporate shills. How did these people even find their way to an anti-corporate environment just to argue that Meta and all the rest are just fine people and that their absolutely terrible reputation doesn't even exist? It's straight-up gaslighting, their list of offenses and abuses is pretty long. Meta is certainly not above paying people to astroturf and defend its reputation. To anyone that knows a damn thing though, that ship sailed a long time ago.

Bullshit, this server could resist corporate influence and YOU could find another instance. You're acting like the people that don't like your point of view should leave. That's not any worse whatsoever than "if you disagree with me, you're just naive." They are 100% both "My way or the highway" sentiments.

Personally, the burden is on you all to prove why you shouldn't just go make a threads account if you care about threads?! Those of us that want nothing to do with Meta really shouldn't have to opt out of a Lemmy instance to keep corporate influence away from us when so many of us are Reddit refugees who came here specifically to get away from corporate bs. Especially not when the fediverse is an answer to and result of big tech's outsized social media influence in the first place.

It's like you all joined the Rebels and want to invite the Empire over for tea...wtf?

Until these mfers invite Judas the Zuckerberg over.

She's legit incredible at this. Check out her insta.

It's a conspiracy just in the sense that they are seemingly counting these towards their growth numbers. If they're saying they have 20 million accounts, but they created 3/4 of them as placeholders, then no...they have 5 million accounts.

Reddit was where we were when we were younger tech nerds, so...yeah man.

I got one of these yesterday with the minimum roll...so it's 1-200% and thus utterly worthless.

I didn't even know I was one of those 30 million users until you and others mentioned that people with Instagram accounts automatically have one.

Don't forget to bring a towel!

Ahem, "landed gentry." :D

What no proper version control does to a mfer(2)

So too many Americans buy trucks and SUV’s, not because they want to, but because that’s the only thing they can buy.

That is...insanely inaccurate lol. "I wanted to buy a car but I could only find trucks for sale" is not a thing in this country whatosever.

I would never trust that it would respect my privacy in the first place. Why would anyone think they're going to turn over a new leaf just because they released a new service?!

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?