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Facebook started blocking links to Pixelfed, a federated Instagram alternative using ActivityPub (bsky.app)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by boramalper to c/decentralization

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[–] MataVatnik 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What was it? Meta wanted to integrate to the fediverse just a few months ago? And a lot of people couldn't see the problem with it

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This was a wolf in sheep's clothing move. They don't care about federation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

As freaking everybody warned but nooooo, they had to toll out the red carpet for them...

[–] MataVatnik 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but some people were going on about free speech. I hope they see it now, especially after Metas new policy on "free speech" where they say they will openly allow for the most racist kinds of speech to go unregulated. God I hate Zucc so much, sometimes I wish hell were real

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They care about free speech and competition about as much as the Borg.

[–] MataVatnik 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

For me it was less about not seeing the problem with it (I don't trust them at all), and more about making sure that people pick Mastodon instead of Threads.

Which is why I was pushing for instances to not fully defederate, but use settings that hide the content by default and let users opt in to see it. That way if someone has 1 friend/local entity that they want to follow on threads, they can still pick Mastodon and opt in to see that content.

After the recent changes, I'm not sure if that's the right move anymore