They can’t. At some point you have to wonder if this is a feature not a bug. You’ll always be beholden to the largesse of millionaires. Whether that’s a charity or not.

Hubzilla allows for a “nomadic identity” and some services allow you to log in using other services - !neodb@lemmy.zip has a long list of logins it allows (not Lemmy… yet).

Friendica

!de_ml@lemmy.blahaj.zone

What about MySpace and Friends Reunited?

“The moon is upside down in Australia”

That being said, I think it would be wise to reformulate and reduce down this post to a straightforward announcement:

Indeed. I know what they mean and why they arrived at this decision, and I agree with it, but I got bored half-way through.

My take is we Admins are just running the community for the users of it and Mods are caretakers of their communities. The idea that communities are a Mods personal fiefdom seems to be a holdover from Reddit and just seems like it can/will lead to power-tripping.

The new term is broligarch.

Facebook, Instagram and Threads are easy, I was never on Threads and largely used the others for following people and groups rather than actively posting.

WhatsApp is the tricky one as all my friends and family are on there and it is pretty important. I could get some people to move to Matrix but not everyone. Luckily, it’s the one that is the most difficult to enshittify. Still…

That’s just misdirection for all the other policy changes:

Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updated its hateful conduct policy, adding new types of content users can post on the platform, effective immediately.

Users are now allowed to, for example, refer to “women as household objects or property” or “transgender or non-binary people as ‘it,’” according to a section of the policy prohibiting such speech that was crossed out. A new section of the policy notes Meta will allow “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality.”

Reminder to get off Facebook and Instagram

Most of us are already out or lurking because of family or some specific group they can’t do without.

The trick will be getting those people off the platform so we can cut all cords.

A fuck of a lot of people and that’s a worry.

You could try by suggesting that religious people are.delusional and see how it goes.

The mask has slipped because they know they can get away with it.

After all,this isn’t anything forced on Meta, they are taking advantage of the incoming president being all for this and binning policies they clearly only follower reluctantly (and poorly).

It feels like the statements about the removal of fact-checking (which is all I heard about on the news) is misdirection, so the changes made deep in their policy documents get less attention than they deserve.

There are dozens of @Blaze@feddit.org.

This is generally good practice, as Lemmy is a link aggregator, so it needs the canonical link. If you are using an archive link, then drop it into the post, which will cover all the bases and give people options.

Or, perhaps even better, Hubzilla.

Isn’t the AI content on specific communities for that can be blocked if you don’t want to see it?

There is a debate to be had about AI generated art, which is trained on artist’s work and may not be the harmless fun people might think. AI summarising an article seems a different beast as it is merely pulling from that one piece and, while there may be questions about accuracy, it doesn’t seem as harmful. I’d, personally, want to read an article myself but it could be useful for other people. I could see an AI summarising videos being an actually useful tool.