Why would they protest and make it opt in? The whole point of the fediverse is that your posts are completely public. Literally anyone and anything can scrape it, your server would hand it to them on a silver platter. That’s the point.
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skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 4 weeks agoWe pretty much had this when the first reliable Mastodon<->Bluesky bridge came online. The Fediverse side protested and made the entire system opt-in.
When this goes live, I expect people to treat it the same as every other sizeable social media joining the Fediverse, with outrange and block lists.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 4 weeks ago
I’ve once been downvoted to oblivion for not defederating threads.net before it even went online. Fediverse people are weird.
korendian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Eh, I think rejecting anything associated with Meta seems perfectly normal for people trying to get away from corporate social media.
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 4 weeks ago
And I think letting everyone decide for themselves how they run their instances and who they federate with is an important cornerstone of the fediverse. I’m more than fine with people not wanting to interact with threads. But what happens on my tiny instance with me as the only active user shouldn’t be cause for outrage.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
My unpopular opinion is that we should federate with threads. “Embrace extend extinguish” would depend on existing fediverse users migrating to threads. Quite frankly, I don’t see that happening. In fact, if there’s no federation, there’s more incentive to use threads to have a presence.
Embrace extend extinguish, if done on the fediverse, may cause an uptick in signups on other instances, and when extinguished, a portion of those users would leave.
With the Google Chat / XMPP thing, people were using Google Chat, had xmpp support, it was cool, then google pulled the rug so users seemingly dropped.
I don’t think Meta has enough goodwill at all to even convince it’s own users to return to it’s platforms these days. I think Bluesky is more of a risk as it claims to be decentralised to rope people in, but isn’t.
Microw@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Because it happens everytime. They accuse people of “scraping the fediverse”.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 weeks ago
Exactly. It is a huge, authoritarian, corporate platform that can absolutely ruin the fedi if it ever turns against us (think ads, bad moderation, nudging campaigns, etc).
Its not at all as black and white as threads is but it is still a huge problem.
tonytins@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
I dunno. I still posts from the Bluesky bridge getting boosts. This might not be as bad Threads.