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lagomorphlecture @ lagomorphlecture @lemmy.world
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Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook

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  • I don't think threads actually has 30 million users. They have some paid shills, probably a lot of their own bots, some people who legit joined to see what it was about, and a bunch of Instagram users who had accounts created automatically. I'm not positive about the last point but if you can't delete threads without deleting Instagram then I'm sure they're going to leverage their Instagram userbase as much as possible here.

    • Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook

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  • Maybe? But a lot of people have exited reddit over the last month. Maybe not the average user but not the most hardcore geek anarchist either-they weren't on Reddit to begin with. Then there are the obvious reasons that a lot of people have left Twitter an those are the same type of people leaving reddit. So mastodon is probably more at risk than Lemmy but I don't think for a second that meta would not throw together a Lemmy competitor if they smell any money whatsoever in it.

    Either way you run risks simply by interacting with threads, even if you interact accidentally. Their entire business model is to suck every last piece of data out of you that they can so they can sell in every way they can possibly think of to monetize it.

    Since lemmyworld has no intention of blocking them I'm finding another instance to move to. Better safe than sorry with a company that has a horrific record on every single issue. And that way if they federate then back out, I won't be losing anything because I'll have never seen that content to begin with.

    • What do you think is responsible for lemmy’s growth over other alternatives like KBin and Tildes?

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  • You are correct about Tildes. They are very intentionally cultivating a different atmosphere and don't want Reddit's huddled masses. There is a subset of reddit users who fit there but it's not the shitposting crowd.

    • Question: People who still frequent Reddit, has it gone back to business as usual or are the protests still having effect?

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  • People should screenshot this stuff and send it to the advertisers asking if they support whatever exactly it's displayed next to.

    • What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?

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  • My cat didn't get any love over on insert community name here. I hope you guys updoot me more than they did.

    • Amazon Checkout. This should be illegal.

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  • Internally they called cancellations the Iliad Process. If that isn't a sign that everything is super totally above board I don't know what is.

    • TIL Many hotels including Hilton and Marriott collect guests’ used soaps, scrape the hair and stuff off, then melt them down to make new soaps.

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  • Yeah, you could be right that it is just for the feel good press to make them look good. Look at clothes donations. It tanks local textile industries and they're sometimes stuck with piles upon piles of used clothes that don't even look nice. Maybe there's something similar happening here.

    • TIL Many hotels including Hilton and Marriott collect guests’ used soaps, scrape the hair and stuff off, then melt them down to make new soaps.

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  • Yummy, glad to be using some rando's used soap. But on a more serious note as long as it's being done in a way that is sanitary and doesn't risk spreading any diseases then this is much better than producing all that waste.

    • Do you think we need a decentralized version of Amazon?

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  • Right, I wasn't sure exactly what OP is trying to say and a little more explanation for what they're thinking would be good. But I was thinking the same thing. "Like Walmart, Target, Kmart, the mall..but online?"