Hey peeps. By now you all heard that Zuck's meta has started and in a defederated mode. This instance has already signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact and we plan to not help improve the value of Facebook, if and when they plan to open federation.
However I am thinking we can have a bit of fun beforehand.
You see, Threads is extremely sanitized in order to be "corporate friendly". Naturally this makes their service as exciting as a bowl of plain porridge. However in order to keep their corporate partners happy, they are also extremely cautious about anything controversial and will likely defederate from anything too spicy.
So why not use this an an opportunity to make Threads defederate from us?
What would you say that we leave federation up, but use the opportunity to share with the larger threads populace some important information about filesharing? Sharing is caring after all and we have plenty of knowledge to give.
Naturally, if this doesn't work, we will defed them ourselves soon after anyway, but I expect it will. What say you all?
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Even though I'm a petty child who'd like to poke some fun at Meta's expense, I think it's better to block them without further ado. And this because the anti-meta fedi pact is just promised words, there's nothing binding instances' admins to commit; so if they start putting conditions such as delays and whatnot before defederating, the pact loses its meaning.
I agree, I don't think we need to wait for proof that Meta is a shitty company we want nothing to do with. That is hopefully already evident. If there was a way we could actually fuck things up for them by federating with them then it might be tempting, but I don't see how we could impact them in any meaningful way.
Also, if you think about it from a corporate risk management perspective, I think it's very likely they will adopt a whitelisting strategy and only federate with META-friendly, cherry-picked instances anyway. They aren't going to risk the embarrassment of being blocked by hostile instances.
In any event, my instinct is to preemptively block them to show solidarity with the other instances who signed up to the FediPact. Fuck Meta and everything they stand for.