Final post: Ah fuck it, I made it all up. Lemmy.world is a good instance you folks have nothing to worry about here. I doubt they took that meeting, I'm out.

Go ahead, ask the admins, surely they'll tell you they did not take the meeting.

What other questions did you have besides "so what?" I thought you were being snarky so I responded in kind. I apologize, this wasn't easy for me and I'm slightly on edge because this was a big step for me to take.

I figured this would be a death sentence for my profile, take it however you wish. If you enjoy lemmy.world and have no concerns, by all means please continue using it.

Yeah so what? Its not like either of you signed up here.

Maybe that's why they won't comment on the issue.

I don't know what they signed.

I know at least one attended, personally I expect multiple, but I know at least one.

I'll respond to comments on this thread, and no matter what, I'm done using lemmy.world after this.

I will not ask my fellow lemmy community members to blindly trust me on this.

I also will not expose my sources.

I thought it would take a long time for me to be sure enough to make this post. But I'm making it less than three weeks after joining lemmy.

If you want, you can take a wait and see approach.

I never wanted to admin an instance, I don't think I have time for it, but I have enough to convince me that I should.

I don't expect blind trust from you guys, because youve proven to be intelligent and diligent in my time here. But for the love of Foss and open, distributed platforms and what WE believe that means, please use your judgment when considering your home instance for lemmy.

I am almost certain lemmy.world admins will ignore this claim.

Connect for Lemmy has this feature on Android, but I doubt it carries over to other apps or in browser usage, since lemmy itself doesn't support it yet.

Connect for lemmy has this on Android. Since others are saying it's on the road map for lemmy, I guess its built into the Connect app and doesn't apply when you login via pc/browser but it should help if you're on mobile, works for me.

[we are doing it for the] “integrity of information and resources connected to the Clemson network”.

They're not doing it to censor or discourage use. They're doing it because they don't want the software running on their network alongside their network resources.

You can still use tiktok, just not while connected to their network infrastructure.

✅️ is a shopping platform

✅️ has an app ecosystem with a billing api

✅️ high probability that someone who shops online has interacted with a store on the platform

✅️ multiple rounds of layoffs w/ staff stretched thin

✅️ unclear ambitions of being a megaplatform, beyond what it already is

I guess we'll never know, lol

Thanks for commenting on the issue, I appreciate the communication and it seems the community feels the same.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] can you let us know if you or any admins of lemmy.world took a meeting with meta or representatives of meta?

@[email protected] runs the 6th largest mastodon instance, and fosstodon instance admins (a smaller mastodon instance), were invited to an "off the record" meeting with Meta. The fosstodon admin, Kev, declined the meeting and notified their community about the correspondence going as far as to share screenshots.

In the correspondence, the meta rep said they were reaching out to mastodon admins, so if fosstodon got an invite, logic would figure they'd invite the admin(s) of a larger instance whom also happen to admin the largest lemmy instance in the world (lemmy.world)

I would love if the same level of transparency could occur here on lemmy.world

Were you folks invited, did you take it? I would really appreciate knowing if the people who run this instance have any relationships, formal or otherwise, with meta. A lot of lemmy users are here on the fediverse to escape the reach of companies like Meta when it comes to their social media.

Obviously no one is obligated to defederate from meta/threads when the time comes. But I would like to be informed.

I think it's important to know. I personally would like to know, I would like to make informed decisions on which instance is my home on lemmy - but without all of the info, our decisions aren't fully informed, so I have low confidence making any decision at this point.

Finally, I've posed similar questions before and have been accused by other users of wanting to attack lemmy admins if they did take a meeting, or for any reason at all. That could not be further from the truth. Online harassment is harassment, and is illegal in many jurisdictions. I don't wish any harm or ill towards anyone, including those who have different values or opinions than mine. Finally, I've always been cordial in my submissions on lemmy, I don't know what would make anyone think I'd start behaving differently now.

I think these questions are important, and I intend to continue asking them until we have an answer, so that I can make a decision with confidence that I had sufficient information to do so.

I hope that seems as reasonable as I feel it is, though I could be wrong, please feel free to respond with your thoughts. I appreciate the discourse.

Thanks yall.

I know I'm not supposed to laugh but that's hilarious

Curious to know if it was enabled for the admin account in question.

You're welcome!

A lemme.world Admin account got hacked, could be that the instance got hacked too, but not sure this is developing afaik

And threads.net is not a lemmy instance 😉

That's it, thats the last straw for me. I'm switching instances to threads.net

Quite the assumption. I'm sorry for making you sick, though.

Yeah, it's a valid concern (echoed by many others on this instance) that I feel should be addressed, to say the least.