For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807

  • @LEDZeppelin
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    593 months ago

    Serious question: how do we - the end users - stop federating with Meta?

      • Armok: God of Blood
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        -33 months ago

        Burying your head in the sand doesn’t change the fact that whatever LW does will affect all of Lemmy. They’re too big.

        • @[email protected]
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          403 months ago

          That sounds like a problem for instances federated with Meta. Empathy is cool but they are not our problem.

        • @techt
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          193 months ago

          This is a strange response for me because de-federating is an active step on behalf of its admin, usually after a vote amongst its users, at creating a virtual boundary between the two entities. How is that burying your head in the sand? And yeah, lemmy.world is big, but aside from the obvious loss of content/users, what other effect will that have on the mass of de-federated instances?

          • just another dev
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            3 months ago

            Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that since LW will federate with them, any content they host, will end up on meta.

            For example, this discussion we’re having right now is on [email protected]. So it doesn’t matter whether our own instances have defederated meta - our posts and comments here will bring them value. Directly, in the form of content. And indirectly, in the form of processable data for machine learning, shadow profiles, etc.

            • @[email protected]
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              143 months ago

              but my understanding is that since LW will federate with them, any content they host, will end up on meta

              Your understanding is wrong. Instances don’t forward stuff from other instances to other instances. Instances only send their own content directly to the instances they federate with.

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          whatever LW does will affect all of Lemmy

          Uuuh no it won’t? The fact that they federate with Threads doesn’t mean that my instance does. How does it affect me?

          • just another dev
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            3 months ago

            You posted this to a LW community, so your content and data will end up in Meta’s hands as well.

            • @[email protected]
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              123 months ago

              No, that’s not how federation works. My instance sends my content directly to everything my instance federates with. No instance takes content from other instances and sends it further - that is not a thing. I sent my content to lemmy.world and it is free to be there. Lemmy.world will not forward that to Threads.

    • @[email protected]
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      763 months ago

      Migrate away from instances that embrace Meta to those that do not. Choose an instance that aligns with you.

      Or in the extreme case, if you’re the first who can’t find such an instance and you’re technically inclined, there’s your room for a new instance. It’s how the fediverse works and partly why Meta is so intent on destroying it.

            • @[email protected]
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              53 months ago

              The tooltip for fedipact says: “Agreed to block all communications (their blocklist is private)”

              To me that says, they’ve agreed but it’s not confirmed that they’ve gone through with it because the blocklist is private. Blocked on the other hand says “All communications are blocked”

            • @cyber_admin
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              33 months ago

              I think fedipact actually sign the pack to block and the others just blocked.

          • @[email protected]
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            53 months ago

            Appreciate the link! Glad to see that both my mastodon and lemmy instances have already blocked their content.

          • @Kalysta
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            13 months ago

            Thanks for this. Looking to make an account on a better server now

        • @[email protected]
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          3 months ago

          I don’t know, but you can check individual instances by going to the /instances subdomain and searching for threads.

          shjw and blahaj are defederated, world isn’t.
          This can always change, but I have confidence in my admins.

          Edit: Thanks to [email protected] for this link