There are under the hood data that is not displayed on the site which they can scrap. FB would be broke if they only rely on the FB posts alone without all the tracking everywhere. Even your movement on the screen or where you pause on the page are tracked.
So no they dont get all the data unless we federate them.
Lovely resource to help people decide for themselves
At least governments/any essential services around the world should
Its your choice as instance owner to do that
Visit https://fedipact.online/ to see a list of instance owners who will defederate their instance from Threads
Heads up: its a long list
Thats the nice thing about fediverse. People with different opinions can co-exist and they have freedom to choose what they want
Big enough is nice but I’d rather have a small community without anything to do with the big tech.
I doubt people joining small instances would miss any content from FB/Instagram/Threads/Twitter
The content on reddit is huge but I cut the tie and happier with Lemmy.
Thanks for sharing. It is exactly what I was looking for. Keep up the good work
Not OP but I recently started using Mastodon at and it was not for me.
For my use case, it was hard to find people I can trust/verify on the platform. I do not want to read every single toot, and browsing via hashtags isn’t ideal. Even when I search a hashtag it still does not show me the most meaningful toots but latest ones. It lacks (on purpose) an algorithm to surface the most interesting toots given a context. I believe Bluesky may have that!
Lemmy, however, is so much better with upvotes, sorting and search.
My apologies in advance but I tried to read but could not understand the essential points
Can you please summaries your posts into a tldr ?
My apologies in advance but I tried to read but could not understand the essential points
Can you please summaries your posts into a tldr?
Definitely. We need a way to sustain this. Many of us me included would be happy to pay for a service that respect us, and especially those volunteering admins/mods. They deserve to be paid
Thats very considerate of you
Please don’t take those complaints as negative feedback. I don’t think Lemmy is designed to be private and your search engine would be a great of help to the whole community.
By the way, do you plan to create a community to discuss about your search engine? Maybe users can help you with testing or report issues or improvement
Removed by mod
Great heads up
I just don’t get why people would join SOCIAL media if they don’t want to their posts public. Its like having a group meeting in the middle of a public square and complain people saw them
Maybe they should just use discord or or private communities instead
This. Mastodon need to work on discovery.
Thanks for the tips on tags. I initially followed tags but could not unfollow them using official mastodon app so I gave up. Have since switched to Metatext but Lemmy has way better content so I’d rather spent my time there
I do hope fediverse will mature and reputable instances established. For now, I don’t think LinkedIn have any competitors, let alone better security/privacy. I do trust Microsoft in that regards than say Google/Facebook/Amazon, or any instance owners right now
With how much information about your location/job/career/relationship with other professionals on LinkedIn, I would rather to have 1 company I can trust to handle data/security/privacy concerns
On LinkedIn at least your profile is not public for EVERYONE to see
While I agreed those who do not want federation with Threads should leave (me included), lemmy.world has not bent any knee. The admin is taking a wait and see approach, and willing to block if it turns out bad