This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance
This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance
Exactly! Let them join…and be ignored.
But how do we ignore them? Can you block an entire instance?
Your instance can defederate from the instance you want blocked, but that affects every registered user on your instance even if they’re against the action. I just released a user script that lets you do it yourself on the client-side!
Yes. A lot of that is going on with instances being blocked en masse for allowing too many spam/bot accounts without any corresponding high quality activity coming from users registered with that instance. It’s very much in flux right now, with instance administrators trying to figure out which metrics to use and what lists to trust, but I imagine a more mature/robust process will be used by most serious instances soon enough.
I see the threat in the sheer developing power of these giants, making all the shiny tools people were wanting, making their service too attractive to be ignored.
If you are viewing on a browser you can. The current app can not.
@Drunemeton Well, I wouldn’t say to ignore them. I think we actually need to engage the users directly and get them to leave #Meta and join independent #Fediverse instances and use #FOSS clients.