Emanuel [comrade/them]

This feud is just so annoying. Just to be clear, I’m not up to date on whatever drama or conflict happened last between the instances depicted, I just find it so stupid. lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear exist since earlier than probably 95+% of instances out there, and these .worlders act like we are the aggressors because we interact on the federated network they chose to use for their FOSS reddit alternative. There’s a metaphor for colonisation somewhere in there, but I’m too tired to spell it out.

Edit: I see I fell for the meme. Still, my point stands for every time an actual .worlder or the like accused us of invading their online spaces

Same here. Grayjay when it doesn’t work

Tbh, I don’t like the coverage they’re giving to this issue. It feels like the new restrictions to sideloading are being done in a vacuum (and as though Google had always offered the “advanced workflow” mentioned, which was not the case. It came after popular outcry, IIRC), and not as a new chapter in a history of encroaching on users’s freedoms done by a profit-driven company. It feels like the concerned users are overblowing the situation and that “reasonable” users need not preoccupy themselves.