We have completely blocked and defederated from threads given the uncontrolled transphobia taking place there
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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Weird, when I go into Instances, it only shows lemmygrad and exploding heads in the Blocked Instances. Threads.net is still in the Linked Instances column. Is this correct?
That was the hacker having fun. Fixed now
I can't remember in which community I saw the link to this article, so I'll add it there just in case given it's very relevant: How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (TL;DR: it already happened several times, by having the big corpo enter the network as the first step)
I'm personally in favour of defederating from/blocking everything owned/operated by Meta.
My eloquent thoughts of "fuck Meta" should sum it up quite nicely.
I assume the plan is the same for Lemmy as it is for Calckey
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I assume the plan is the same for Lemmy as it is for Calckey
Yep! We're mirroring block lists between the two instances
I haven’t seen any discussion of it here, but I’m all in favour of preemptive blocking. Meta/FB/IG cannot and must not be trusted to be a good fediverse citizen (government? instance-nation? I’m not sure how my own metaphor should work. 😆). Give an inch, they’ll take a mile.
i really don't care about whatever commercial potential could exist there, id prefer to avoid interacting with meta as much as possible
yeah... just finished preemptively defederating my personal instance from threads, and from any instance that seems to want to federate with Meta. hoping we follow a similar tack here
Yeah, I would prefer if this place just pre-emptively defederates Threads. Since while unlikely to be able to really view lemmy posts properly, I still rather it not be able to be seen at all. I dont want them to embrace extend extinguish and so need to pre-emptively prevent that.
I don't want anything Zuck made to get anywhere near my data. We should defederate and never look back.
It would be nice to see meta's TOS concerning federation first. If it's not egregious, like Facebook, it would be good to volunteer an instance to connect with them, similar to putting a toe in the water.
I've just read through the Mastodon/Threads FAQ, and, so far, I'm ok with it.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
My biggest problem with that blog post is Eugene seems convinced that Mastodon's brand is sufficient enough to prevent EEE. I really think he is missing the fact that his own distaste for fairly popular features makes Mastodon fairly easy to poach users from.
What sort of features? I haven’t really used Mastodon as I was never much for Twitter.
Quote toots are the obvious one (although full disclosure: I don't like them either). Some instances and alternative Fediverse servers have a maximum character count substantially greater than that of Mastodon's default.
This is what the water is like, do you want that here?
I think I know what you were trying to post but the image didn't attach.