A community index of servers added a new rule recently, that requires every participant to defederate from Threads. Some admins are unhappy.

Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
    92·
    8 months ago

    I just wouldnt want to see sneaky “promoted” posts aka ads

    I don’t quite see how that would even work. Those posts would need to be coming from individual users rather than from Facebook itself and you can just block those users. Facebook can display ads in between posts on their own app but those wont be visible to people using other apps.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      71·
      8 months ago

      Here’s one scenario.

      1. Facebook feeds its users content according to an algorithm.

      2. Facebook and lemmy users can interact with the same user content (liking, commenting).

      3. There are vastly more Facebook users than lemmy users.

      4. By dint of Facebook’s greater number of users, lemmy users will see the most popular content that is fed algorithmically to Facebook users.

      Conclusion: lemmy users are being fed content by the Facebook algorithm (in this still, thankfully hypothetical, scenario).

      Like imagine Facebook promotes some viral post and it gets a thousands of upvotes. Any lemmy user on a federated instance, sorting by upvotes/hot/etc, is going to see that post.

      That’s the kind of top-down reach that is so alien to the fedi

    • niartenyawEnglish
      61·
      8 months ago

      Facebook could just create fake users that post ads as content

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        8 months ago

        Hopefully fediverse admins are sensible enough to ban users who are blatantly posting advertisements. I know that a lot are, but I also know that a few of the bigger servers tend to turn a blind eye to that kind of thing.