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Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" (wedistribute.org)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (34 children)

Maybe I'm naive but I kinda don't get it. People talk about defederating as if...what, all Meta IP addresses will be magically blocked from scraping your content? Any script kiddie can harvest Lemmy/Mastodon/whatever content.

Has Meta shown itself to be a bad actor? Yes. Should my email provider block all emails from Meta? Well...that's a bit much I think? If Facebook email still existed, should my email provider block that?

My point is yes, Meta bad, but all Thread users also bad? I thought

and apparently I'm very wrong here

that the Federation paradigm was kinda like email. And the only email I want blocked is a domain where every single user is malicious, not a domain run by a malicious entity which has normal people as users, who aren't necessarily very tech literate.

I don't actually care, but I just find it a little confusing tbh.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

It's not about looking what's happening in the garden, it's about entering in the garden. It's two very different situations.

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