Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"
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A community index of servers added a new rule recently, that requires every participant to defederate from Threads. Some admins are unhappy.

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.

  • @GlitterInfectionEnglish
    17•8 months ago

    Bullying instance admins into aligning with your values is absolutely the type of behavior that will ruin this protocol.

    Meta is evil and Threads is lame. And I can block them on my own, thank you.

    • @[email protected]English
      26•8 months ago

      “Not linking to you on my personal website is bullying”

      Give it a fucking break precious.

      Co-ordinated action is needed to fight back against billion dollar companies, not leaving it up to individuals.

      • xigoiEnglish
        -7•8 months ago

        Do you also urge your e-mail provider to block e-mails from Meta for all users?

        • @[email protected]English
          8•8 months ago

          I would urge the email protocol makers to stop the rampant corporate tracking. Basically every email sender gets your location, ip, and other info when you open it.

          I’d bet facebook has a team of marketers working tirelessly to grow their fedi market share so that less informed people think of the fediverse as just a part of threads. They started their own free ISP and half the people that used it ended up thinking Facebook dot com was all there is to the internet. They’ve decided to ruin the fediverse next because by federating, they can see a ton of info about you/your account by default.

          I think the FTC should do its fucking job, but until then people should stop these huge companies from getting exactly what they want as much as possible. I see no benefit, but a major threat from a company that spies and creates hordes of ill informed users. Literally they are in the news right now for man in the middling Snapchat data. You think they won’t/haven’t started that kind of thing for fedi? They can’t train their LLMs off Snapchat half as easy as they can here.