Blahaj Lemmy Meta

Agreeing with the general sentiment. Anytime the big five 'engage' with the open source community they just use and abuse it. IMHO it would be in the best interest of the Fediverse to reject all partnership offers from the corps and make sure to defederate any instances they stand up.

Seems clear to me that Facebook should have no other interest in this other than ultimately making money. Thus it is antithetical to Lemmy and the fediverse in general, and should be treated as such.

We have completely blocked and defederated from threads given the uncontrolled transphobia taking place there

They really think we never learned from google+ or WhatsApp? They implement OpenSource, greedy milk it to the ground and close it or set their propetary code over it. Nothing has changed, we should be worried about activitypub since the greedy five are interested in it.

Please no.

One thing they've started mentioning over on Mastodon is that boosts can probably be legally used to build ad profiles.

Existing conversation over here: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/638694

This article sums it up very well: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

The fact that Threads won't launch in Europe because it's literally illegal there tells me everything I need to know about this platform. Do not trust Facebook, do not federate with Facebook.

I can already see it. They will offer a solution to the identity “problem”, moving user accounts to their network. They will offer “free” hosting solutions so that more people can run communities without self-hosting. Over the course of years they will slowly inject ads, tracking, the typical enshitificaton fare.

I’m tired.

Thank god Kbin allows to block an entire instance. Although I’d prefer if the fediverse collectively defederated from them.

Absolutely terrible. No cooperation should force users to creat a proprietary account for using the fediverse. Also meta evil.

A lot of people are using the same user handle accross platforms. That's an easy way to deanonimize people's data, and that's what is Meta aiming for (besides potential EEE tactics).

Literally my first exposure to Threads as an active web service tells me that even if it weren't a blatant attempt at Embrace-Extend-Extinguish, you do not want to be federated with it. All your "favourites" from Twitter are there.

People should note: this is an instance meta community not a place for general discussion outside of lemmy.blahaj.zone

Can't wait for every instance to block it lmao

It honestly annoys me that people are moving to this. Mastodon instances are mostly run by independent nonprofits. Bluesky is at least run by a "public benefit" for profit. But people seem all too willing to move to a site by another big tech company. The only silver lining is that hopefully, I can still follow the people that do use Threads.net on Mastodon/Calckey/whatever which is why I am against complete defederation and only pro-limiting them.

Also, their website is just a bunch of spinning balls, you cannot see posts or do anything besides just watch balls spinning around. Kind of a dealbreaker because I expect more than just spinning balls on my social platforms.

I don’t want any corporate bodies on the fediverse

Completely agree. We've seen how corporate involvement in social media works, let's leave it behind.

It's a double edged sword. I like the idea of activityPub getting more focus so it can be optimized and improved. I hate the idea of getting low quality Facebook style spam. I get that you can block things but I'd rather it just not be there

First it was the metaverse, now it is the fediverse...

I have seen the word "defederation" thrown around a lot. What would this mean for the average Blåhaj zone user if we defederated?

Great. I came here specifically to escape big tech bullshit, and now they're coming to infect the fediverse. At this point, I don't care. Once they get a foot in the door, it's already too late. I'll just leave if I have to, I haven't had any social media in years at this point anyway. I can't envision a world where Meta doesn't use covert tactics to gain a stranglehold over this place.

There have been plenty of posts about it, and I can't find the one that better broke down the situation, but it went like this:

• We don't need Meta and they will be probably just after your data, which is anyway completely public regardless of whether you join threads or not (since the protocols are open, and they can simply look into everything you post here or there). So we might as well not give them data directly by joining their platform.
• the most our instances can do is to either federate with them, or not. But that's not the only thing, since you will still be seeing their content if your instance federates indirectly with them (through another one, that doesn't block them). This will leave 3 main groups of instances:

1. Instances that federate with Meta's Threads.
2. Instances that don't directly federate with Threads
3. Instances that block threads completely.

[1] and [2] will mostly carry on their merry way while [3] will be super isolated, since [1] and [2] will be the biggest groups.

I can't really recall the bigger arguments that summarise the idea, but it all comes down to:

• lets show Meta's users that they're welcome in the fediverse, and that they too can leave big corps for a more decentralised community. If we block them, some instances (that are maybe less liked) will instead be the front page of the fediverse for these new users, and that wouldn't probably make a good impression.
• Meta joining the fediverse voluntarily will be its own demise, since we are not leaving for them, and their users will see that Meta doesn't really bring anything to the table and instead just takes.

What's the opposite of federation, let's do that. Use ChatGPT to send mark zuckerberg only lies

I mean isn’t that the beauty of it? You don’t have to subscribe to anything meta and you can join servers that actively block it. I think it’s a good thing if it gets more users on activity pub so our communities can thrive.

Strongly against.

What is Meta doing? What is Threads?

If they're in, I'm out.