that must mean pixel fed is doing something right then good.
fuck meta.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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Never heard of pixelfed and I've been holding off on joining Instagram.
Thanks to the Streisand effect, I now have a new app to try.
Exactly ... and its good Meta is showing their hand early rather than later ... the more unfederated they act, the more likely they'll leave the fediverse ecosystem.
I am pretty sure that it would be illegal in the EU? That's abusing monopolistic position.
Unfortunately, in the US we don't live in society of laws
Perhaps EU can enforce these for you like it has done with Google:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw3e1pn741o
"Europe's top court has ruled Google must pay a €2.4bn (£2bn) fine handed down for abusing the market dominance of its shopping comparison service.
(...)
The EU's case against Google started with Foundem, which filed its complaint against the tech giant in 2009.
At its heart was the contention that Google made its own shopping recommendations appear more prominent than rivals in search results."
Thanks! See you in another 15 yrs!
We are well beyond that with these platforms now. They will identify your location and only abide by those laws based on where you are. This is how many many many subscription sites enforced California unsubscribe laws for years already
I think this probably is illegal in the US too. Whether anything will be done about it is probably a question of money, though. So, since the infringed party here is not wealthy, nothing is likely to come of it.
There weren’t consequences of Twitter blocking mastodon, nor Reddit blocking lemmy, so I expect nothing will happen here either.
When the platforms see their users as chattel you should leave.
I made an account on the pixtagram.social Pixelfed server and idk what will come from it. But anything to reject meta.
I thought Facebook was a "free speech platform" now that Zuck bent the knee to Trump.
No no, we're all misunderstanding what they mean by "free speech." It's not free as in "freedom", but free as in air: you don't directly pay them money to use their platform, much like you don't yet have to directly pay our corporate overloads for the privilege of breathing oxygen.
Can Lemmy and Pixelfed speak with or see each other?
It has basically the same limitations that lemmy-mastodon has. Pixelfed users can follow lemmy communities to see posts in their timelines. They can see top level comments as replies and can also reply to create top level comments. Lemmy users can't follow pixelfed accounts in any way.
It works with Mastodon, which can interact with Lemmy, so I'll venture it's yes.