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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn! If only someone could've predicted that Meta would eventually do something stupid like this! If only we had defederated from them from the start /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

But nobody could have seen that coming! /s

https://fedipact.online

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

That’s my secret, Captain, I’m always defederated from corporate social media.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How can a decentralized platform have a CEO?

[–] TheTechnician27 105 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (22 children)

You recognize that Mastodon, the software, is developed by a non-profit called Mastodon gGmbH?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

Actually I was not aware of that, thank you for telling me.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

His full name is John Mastodon Pterodactyl Triceratops Sabre-tooh Tiger Tyrannosaurus but he just goes by John Mastodon for short.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nice. I wonder if he also plays drums for Mastodon.

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

Who wants to be CEO of lemmy btw? You'll have no power over anything, but we can call you that from now on as a joke.

[–] reptar 6 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Corporate fediverse isnt true fediverse

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah, when my Lemmy server goes down I don’t want it to be because of a large scale cyber attack, I want it to be because some dude’s dog got the zoomies in the basement and tripped on a cable.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

we fucking said this would happen and this dumb asshole refused to defederate on the flagship instance anyway

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

How do I find out if my Mastodon server is federated with Threads?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is old, it still has the (now defunct) feddit.de instead of feddit.org

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

RIF feddit.de 😔

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Nice. Pretty happy that most of the fediverse, and most lemmy instances, are blocking threads.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

At least on mine, there's an "About" link on the bottom left side on the web interface, click that and scroll to the bottom where you'll get a list of blocked servers, then just uncollapse that and ctrl+f for "threads.net".

[–] elena 12 points 1 month ago

Even if your Mastodon instance is federated with Threads, you can still block the whole domain from your account. Explanation / walkthrough here: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/113797840274825233

[–] Bz1sen 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also if you search "@threads.net" in your mastodon client and you find users from that server, then your server should be connected

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Meta moderation was a dumpster fire before this, I can only imagine how bad it's going to get.

Currently they have blatant misinformation everywhere posted as real news, people read the stuff and believe it fully. It should be illegal - people are just too stupid to know Facebook is just a modern tabloid magazine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Years ago I reported the same account for bullying the same person, every time FB came back saying “no issues found”. The site is fucked, and blatantly has been so for years. But it was recently pointed out to me it has been since the start. He’s not a nice guy.

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[–] WraithGear 15 points 1 month ago

“Who saw that comi… who saw where that came from!”

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