Has there been any talk of defederating Meta/Threads? - eviltoast

The Mastodon instances that I’m a member of have all preemptively defederated and I am very supportive. Just occurred to me we could still see the threads folks over here. What do you guys think? How does this instance feel about Meta?

EDIT: Admin response her https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/728123

  • ‘Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • patchwork@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    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

  • transgwender@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • oryx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My eloquent thoughts of “fuck Meta” should sum it up quite nicely.

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    1 year ago

    i really don’t care about whatever commercial potential could exist there, id prefer to avoid interacting with meta as much as possible

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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      1 year ago

      I assume the plan is the same for Lemmy as it is for Calckey

      Yep! We’re mirroring block lists between the two instances

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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    1 year ago

    We have completely blocked and defederated from threads given the uncontrolled transphobia taking place there

    • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      1 year ago

      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.

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          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.

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              Twitter has this thing where you can retweet something and add your own context to it. Eugen has resisted adding this to Mastodon for a long time, although I understand that it’s in the works now, citing the tendency for the feature to be used as a way of getting one’s followers to pile on somebody else’s post. On the other hand, some communities have cited this as a very important way of how they’ve used the birdsite, although I don’t understand how exactly and don’t wish to mischaracterise their arguments.

    • solarvector@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      TOS can change at their whim. Even if the TOS started out decent it would change as soon as they were established. Severing threads once the user base is entrenched would be much more difficult than not allowing federation from the start.

  • Jelly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I seem to be on the minority, but while we should be very skeptical of meta, I don’t think we should preemptively defederate. I think there is a place for a “commercial” fediverse product because there will always be people who just want to stick to known brands. It could work as a nice intermediary or introduction for people who can then join a non-commercial instance. The main concern imo is what kind of data they will (or can?) mine from users on other iterations. If they just focus on data mining from their own users, I vote to stay federated.

    • kukkurovaca@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      If they get into the lemmy space, the risk is that we’ll wind up with a bunch of big / important communities hosted on their servers, making it harder down the road to defederate from them. Would be easy for it to snowball into the embrace, extend, exterminate paradigm, in a way much easier than on Mastodon, where nobody can control a hashtag.

      • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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        I honestly think the bigger risk is corporate incentivized cultural homogeneity. Kind of like we saw with reddit and all of the astroturfing that goes on over there.

    • PopularUsername@lemmy.world
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      Honestly sounds like paranoid ramblings, never heard of this EEE thing before and now it’s as though this is a well known phenomenon. All successful open-source projects will interact with and be used by commercial entities. If it’s superior, others will use it, and others will use it to make money. If the network is not currently resilient enough to be able to incorporate the capitalists (crony or other otherwise) then at what point will it? This excuse will always exist. An open source project should be able to lean into this and be able to navigate it, rather than segregate like some wimpy monopolist.

      • iso@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        The technology is open-source, the community is not. If we open the community to the corpos, we, as the community, will suddenly be part of the financial success of said corpos. They will take our data for their own use, and our interactions will make them money as well through engagement via their own interfaces.

        They can use the Fediverse technology as much as they want, but I’m heavily against them using my personal data.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Torn because I like seeing the bigger people (ok mostly just the Crit Role cast) I used to follow on Twitter without using Twitter but also the fact that there’s no moderation and there’s already people posting genocidal threats against trans people…

  • JakenVeina@vlemmy.net
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    It depends on how well they can be trusted with having access to all the data we would be sharing with them.

    Since the answer for “how much can we trust Meta with any amount of data” is “not at all”, that’s an easy “defederate immediately”.