Given their post on mastodon saying they won’t defederate, I would bet money they took that meeting and signed an NDA.

Maybe they even are getting some funding out of it.

This is all speculation of course, but if they don’t deny it then I think it’s pretty likely.

Oh, looks like I’m switching instances.

What you’ll likely see is the button links to a centralized service that sends you to the Lemmy instance you are logged into

So the button would never link directly to any Lemmy instance but some central server that sends you to your own instance.

Who would run that server? Probably the same guys who develop these button integrations.

I showed my friend all of the privacy problems with threads and his response was ‘I don’t care, they already have everything anyway’.

I told another friend and their response was ‘I don’t care if they have my data, it’s not much use to them and it doesn’t have any effect on me’

The world is hopeless.

I think it’s just because this guy left a comment, the algorithm picked up the post again.

Kinda like ‘bumping’ a thread in the forum days.

This post is 2 years old lol

Uh no, you can’t. It’s like any game with DRM.

You can’t play most games on steam without logging in at least once.

Just use TLLauncher.

It really boils down to availability. A VPS will usually be more reliable than a home network.

For 99% of personal use though a home network behind a dynamic DNS service will be more than good enough.

I feel like the EEE attack is inevitable at this point.

Why else would they even be willing to federate?

They saw the threat that decentralized non-profit social media is and want to kill it before it has a chance.

All Lemmy servers and especially the largest ones need to defederate from it immediately.

And somehow some people are going to use this as reasoning that they need more guns to defend themselves.

I am one of those users.

Don’t even feel the need to go back to reddit. This platform is going to take off.

‘Some of you may die, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take’

Went Lemmy.world because I had no idea how any of this worked.

Gonna stick with it for now, because there isn’t really a reason to switch. In the future I might switch or host my own.

It’s non profit by default, the very thing that social media needs.

People who run Lemmy servers do it at their own cost. That’s not to say they can’t run ads or choose other ways to become profitable. The big difference between a lemmy instance and something like Reddit is that anyone can start a new instance if the current one goes to shit. If the admins do something the users REALLY don’t like, they can migrate to another instance way more easily than switching platforms.

Reddit is counting on the effort of switching platforms being too high for lemmy to gain traction. They are wrong.

The developers do it for free, which is common in the open source community. There will always be volunteers to build the software and donors to support them.