Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net"

If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net".

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[–] xantoxis 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Then go join threads.net? Nobody's stopping you from doing that. That would put you on a server friendly to your beliefs.

Server admins also have opinions, and are not required to take a democratic vote and each individual user's choice into account. They can decide for themselves, and they will, for good or ill. If you don't like where it ends up, your user decision should be to fuck off to threads.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that's what they're saying.

They're saying that some users and admins might choose to wait and see

[–] ttmrichter 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Yes, Jeffrey has, in the past, killed and eaten gay men. But we should wait and see. It's impolite not to invite him to the party!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't want to use their platform, but I get why some people might choose to stay federated so that there is incentive to pull people to mastodon and educate people about the issues

There's enough nuance there that I'm not dead set on either side, and I think we still have the chance to defederate later if there's an increase in spam and harmful content / disinformation.

[–] ttmrichter 3 points 11 months ago

"Jeffrey doesn't always eat people. Just sometimes. We should totally go clubbing with him and spurn him later if he eats one of us."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don’t want to join a proprietary service, but I want to be able to communicate with people who chose to join it.

[–] xantoxis 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Facebook accounts are free, that's all ya need man

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They are not free because they deprive you of your privacy.

[–] xantoxis 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. Then why would we want lemmy drowning in all that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Because if the content is federated, then you can access it without sacrificing your privacy.