This is one of the many reasons to just defederate from Threads.
Meta can fuck right off
That is painfully accurate of what's happening if instance admins do not hard block Threads.
Yet another word that starts with an E! Thanks for the link, I added a link to the post near the end of the "Extinguish isn't the only word that starts with an E":
Either way, as Ramin Honary suggests, it's a great opportunity for Enshittification – yet another word that starts with an E!
As i suggested from the start. Defederate any instance that federate with threads. Yea I'm being Trotsky here, split can be a good thing.
Well, it makes me sad that we would have to, but that doesn't make me agree less that it would be necessary to keep a real alternative in existence.
Every instance that allows Meta should not be considered part of the Fediverse anymore, but is now Metaverse. Mastodon/Pleroma/Lemmy/... will then just become the running software, but not by default 'Fediverse' anymore, that choice will become the admin's: Fedi or Meta.
In a perfect world we can still keep the big parties out for those that choose to, though at first it will be hard, not only to keep up with instances leaking both ways, but also hard to let go of the unrelated users that had no choice in the matter and are now presented with: change server or follow the server's choice, and the second choice will be the least trouble for most. In other words: many followers will be lost and many currently followed won't be reachable anymore.
Yep, I've said for a while that if a schism with transitive defederation happens, it'll be a good thing. There are many fediverses!
If the plan for the fedivers is to associate with Meta, I will leave it in a heart beat.
...but meta is where the hookers actually are....
The best paragraph is at the very bottom
speaking of Bannon and his pals, since far right social networks Gab and Truth Social are built on ActivityPub, if Threads opens up two-way federation as planned later this year they'd have a golden opportunity to try to build on the Trump campaign's successful work with Facebook on digital voter suppression in 2016, the "Stop the Steal" and coup planning in 2020, and QAnon conspiracy theory as well as Libs of Tik Tok and Moms for Liberty's work. What could possibly go wrong?
Glad you liked it, I like to put in a treat for people who read all the way to the end!
What I really hope is that the fediverse doesn't end up in a fragmented mess trying to catch up with Meta's eventual extension of ActivityPub... What this project needs is a slow and steady (technological) development driven by the communities instead of trying to fit in with the big players. That's what really did harm XMPP too IMHO.
Well, threads dot net is already fully blocked on my pleroma instance, like it doesn't exist.
Any other urls I should maybe add to keep the big culprits out?
That's the only one that's currently active as far as I know. https://mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/110586556696261405 has a bunch of resources including blocklist for other Meta domains as well.
I stopped reading when I saw a copy-pasted definition of the word "exploit".
This article thinks we're dumb as shit.
I didn't have that in the original draft, and half the people who reviewed it said "I don't understand what you mean by exploit". And no, I don't think people reading the article are dumb as shit, I assume that most people who already know what exploit means are intelligent enough to skip over the four lines of cut-and-paste text and read the rest of the article.
Maybe it's trying to exploit us.
That's a great article. I linked to it in the OP:
The same is true with Google's adoption and then abandonment of the XMPP protocol, which is also often described as EEE. I don't think that's the right way to look at it; for one thing, XMPP is still around, and thanks to adoption by Zoom and others it has hundreds of millions of users – or billions, if you count WhatsApp'a non-standard derivative version. But in any case, whether or not it was EEE, Google didn't go into it with a goal of killing XMPP. They just wanted to exploit XMPP to address a business problem of making Google Talk successful – and did so, until it wasn't useful to them any more.
Can mastadon hosts just refuse to federate with activepub? (I'm probably misunderstanding everything here but hopefully you get my drift).
Yes, Mastodon instances can indeed refuse to federate with Threads -- you're not misunderstanding anything. You can track what instances are and aren't federating at https://fedipact.veganism.social/ (the "FediPact" it mentions is an agreement that hundreds of instances have signed to block Meta). Currenntly, about 40% of instances aren't federating -- but most of the largest instances are.
Assuming you mean "Can Mastodon instances defederate with Threads?": Yes. Mastodon (and similar services) run on the ActivityPub protocol, which allows them to decide who they do and do not federate with. Many instances have chosen to preemptively block Threads, many have chosen not to. Pick what works for you.
Chill mate. This is the fedi - you get to actively allow or deny what you see.
No-one can take that away from you.
the fediverse is so much smaller than Threads
Is that a typo?
It's not a typo but I see what you mean, I meant that it has a lot fewer people in it but it's not great wording and I'll fix it. Thanks!
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