I’m not sure what the point is here. C is symmetrical and has absolutely no downsides, so yes, it’s objectively better.

Lol it’s ok. I like popcorn anyway. xD

What did we do to piss them off? Where the instancedrama community at? xD

Huh. Well that just makes no sense structurally. Thanks for pointing it out though.

How does this thing work at all? You would expect it to all be hosted to the site the community is hosted on. So now when a comment thread is fetched, it has to go to all these other servers for every single comment from another instance. This is actually mind-boggling.

Does anyone have an ELI5 for why it’s done this way?

No, but that’s what common sense says.

Of you post to an outside community, is not hosted on your insurance. It’s hosted where it’s posted.

Sure, if you hate it so much. Join a service that’s excluded.

The people here now largely don’t care about content from Meta. I don’t even care personally if people don’t want to switch from Meta to the fediverse.

I get being able to keep access to friends and their content, but a big draw of having this account is not being tied to me at all beyond my content and comments being semi publicly known to be from the same person.

The idea of federating to me seems to be being able to have one account with access to everything. That’s not necessarily a benefit.

If the fediverse gets big enough it won’t matter if they’re able to access Meta content. The grass gets too green here to feel like you’re missing out.

I don’t even think them being cut off from the 'verse completely is the intent either. I personally don’t want to be attached to them, so like I said, if this instance decides to that’s fine. I will move to one that’s not for myself. It doesn’t have to be that big of a thing.

Just like your example, of you personally don’t want to connect with Gmail, you join a network that’s not connected. Everybody’s happy.

I don’t want to touch their content, and I feel like I’m large part the people that have moved here already mostly agree in not seeing value in a connection to Meta.

This will not always be the case, and for them that’s fine.

I’m starting to get rant-y here, so I’ll cut it off.

But back to the original point- if you don’t want Google stuff, then yes, join a place without it. That’s ok, and kind of the design of this setup.

I really believe the content here will surpass anything they can possibly contribute, and then making an account over on this side shouldn’t be an impossible hurdle.

Brave, brave sir Robin.

Please for the love of Internet connectivity as a whole: block anything remotely attached to Facebook, not just the instance, but in general Internet daily life.

Zuck should die forgotten.

It does not go against the point of the fediverse to do so, either. Why would the ability to do this be baked into the code if it was not the intent to use it in certain situations? This would be a perfect use.

I can see maybe certain instances wanting it for whatever reason, but I’ll be packing up and moving to one that blocks it if this one allows it.