The fact that Lemmy is being hacked is a sign Lemmy is becoming big. This is a great thing, but mass adoption should still be refrained from, as we have seen it with reddit and Big Tech platforms.

Facebook, Google, Apple, Zoom and others’ chat platforms are made out of defederated XMPP, being the reason XMPP, a federated chat protocol itself, has never become popular in the past 20 years.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is a tactic Western capitalist tech companies use to exploit open source technologies for profits and control over society.

I have seen plenty apologists for Facebook/Twitter federation on Lemmy instances. Do not underestimate the enemy.

I feel the same. Lemmy.world has demonstrated itself as a popular Lemmy instance, like a huge playground, but Facebook instances must be given the boot. I am okay with seeing myself out of here, if it does not happen. Being on lemmy.ml for years, I will have zero issues doing that.