A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[–] [email protected] 211 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Join the pact and not just vow but actually do defederate Threads as soon as it comes online: https://fedipact.online/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

i appreciate the message but what is that ui design???

the floating hearts that go over the text. the neon pink background. the fact that this serious pact is in all lowercase (i know im typing in all lowercase, but i think the fedipact is different from an internet forum). the weird text animation for hyperlinks that makes it unreadable for a second. this does not lead to any reasonable credibility

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is what nonconformity looks like. The internet of old looked similar to this. Nowadays, everything has ample whitespace, and is boringly styled, and ads everywhere.

That would be how I look at this page.

[–] schrodinger 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Webpages have ample whitespace and "boring" styling for accessibility and readability. Nonconformity for the sake of nonconformity is really stupid.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I mean with boring that every website looks the same, perhaps a splash of color but thats it. And even that isn't a guarantee for accessibility or readability. This pink website is perfectly valid and accessible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is literally a link on that page titled "why"...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't agree with it. Lemmy won't be affected anyhow since the use-case is so so different. We hardly interact with Mastodon. We'll be fine.