Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net"

If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net".

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[–] 96 points 2 years ago (56 children)

Let users decide because we’re fucking adults.

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Great thing about the fediverse

    People get to decide what they want from their platform

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Surely you're aware of the embrace, extend, extinguish corporate strategy.

    People only get to decide what they want from their platform until facebook starts extending the spec. Then your client will become incompatible with some posts, and so on and so forth.

    In summary, it's a threat to the platform itself.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Exactly, I hereby decide that I would like to ignore corporate efforts to undermine this burgeoning new platform. I furthermore reserve the right to complain about the loss of said platform in future years by claiming that it's everyone elses fault for allowing corporate encroachment.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    Yeah dude let’s just federate with an instance maintained by a corporation that has undoubtedly caused a genocide in Myanmar by turning a blind eye to a far-right hate speech group that caused an entire fucking minority to flee into another country.

    I don’t get why people are supporting and saying “oh it must be up to the user” like bro this is the company we’re dealing with. Fuck that fuck threads fuck zuckerberg i don’t want his shit cancer near something that’s going well so far.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Then go join threads.net? Nobody's stopping you from doing that. That would put you on a server friendly to your beliefs.

    Server admins also have opinions, and are not required to take a democratic vote and each individual user's choice into account. They can decide for themselves, and they will, for good or ill. If you don't like where it ends up, your user decision should be to fuck off to threads.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't think that's what they're saying.

    They're saying that some users and admins might choose to wait and see

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Yes, Jeffrey has, in the past, killed and eaten gay men. But we should wait and see. It's impolite not to invite him to the party!"

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I don't want to use their platform, but I get why some people might choose to stay federated so that there is incentive to pull people to mastodon and educate people about the issues

    There's enough nuance there that I'm not dead set on either side, and I think we still have the chance to defederate later if there's an increase in spam and harmful content / disinformation.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I don’t want to join a proprietary service, but I want to be able to communicate with people who chose to join it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Facebook accounts are free, that's all ya need man

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They are not free because they deprive you of your privacy.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    You have the full right to decide, you can switch servers to one that chooses to, or open multiple accounts. That's your choice. This isn't Nostr, in the Fediverse instance blocking is normal and it happens without your input, but you know what does happen with your input? Registering your account on a server that fits your needs best, or as close as possible.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    Generally, yes. Perhaps unpopularly, I don't need to decide about suddenly having meta content in Lemmy. I expect that's not ever gonna happen.

    Having Elongated Musk or Fart Suckerberg in my stream cannot be the default, but at best, opt in.

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