Fediverse

@[email protected] Would love to know from you, what do you plan to do?

What is the SDF's current attitude to Threads?

I'm somewhat undecided here, because ultimately I don't care for federated services to become dominant at all costs, nor do I care if they shrink slightly. I want the users of these services to voluntarily choose them based on the principles that federated social media stands for right now. My personal opinion right now is let them federate, but defederate the minute the "extend" starts. But we'll see.

It's worse off if we don't federate with them. That way they get their walled garden and people don't bother to use mastodon as it's incompatible. Federation gives everyone choices.

What worries me most is how this has shown me how how wildly insecurely ActivityPub seems to be storing and sharing user data.

I welcome the extra content and massive expansion of the fediverse! Having millions of users has its advantages. Smaller communities will still exist.

Lmao do people want ActivityPub to be relevant or not? Defederating yourselves from millions of users is idiotic.

I was looking forward to being able to use a mastodon to interact with people on Threads but apparently that's the worst thing ever for you guys? What?

I dint understand anything you guys are talking about here. Fediverse? Are we ralking about the collection of sublemmys?

I thought Threads joining the fediverse was a GOOD thing, and even the Mastodon Org seems cool with this. More users = better.

Wanting to block Threads does nothing to Meta, and only hurts users. It would be like blocking all email from Gmail because you know they read your messages to generate targeted ads. You wouldn't be teaching Google a lesson, just hindering interoperability between people.

The EEE argument is a red herring at the moment. Sure, in the future, Meta and others could get clever in ways we can't imagine right now, but currently it's a "sky is falling" kind of threat. As it currently stands, the path from Threads launching to "Meta killing the fediverse" has all the logical progression as the Underpants Gnomes.