Comment on Mastodon founder touts Threads' federation, saying it makes his X rival 'a far more attractive option'

woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• kpw@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We should treat them like any other instance. If they are a good citizen of the Fediverse they stay, otherwise they will be blocked and nothing has changed.

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  • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If they are a good citizen of the Fediverse

    They haven’t been a good citizen of the internet, why would you even give them a chance?

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    • Alto@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The only explanation for someone getting back in line to get kicked in the balls for the 15th time in the row is the must really like getting kicked in the balls

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mastodon users can already block entire domains. Unless it’s legally required, there’s hardly a reason why the admins would need to take the decision away from the users.

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    • Alto@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The whole point is that instance owners/admin are allowed to run their instance however they want

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      • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The whole point is that instance owners/admin are allowed to run their instance however they want

        Absolutely. My comment wasn’t about mandating an all open policy to all instance admins. Just saying that they don’t have to make such decisions for their users. It’s different on Lemmy where per user instance blocking will only come in the next release, so for now Lemmy admins kinda have to make such decisions on the behalf of users as well.

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    • kpw@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree. Everyone should be able to decide for themselves. My only concern is that Fediverse servers will suddenly become expensive to host because of the Threads traffic. But this would also happen with many users on many smaller instances and is not specific to Threads.

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      • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Servers pull content based on subscriptions (follows). Meta can’t push content into the Fediverse.

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    • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Admins host, users don’t. It’s not the users’ decision.

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      • kpw@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If the admin decides not to block them it's the users' decision. And users can choose not to use instances who block Threads.

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    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same with kbin users

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• Enk1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Right? You don’t have to join or even engage with Threads if you don’t want to. Super easy to block an instance. But this brings a massive userbase and serious support to Mastodon. I’m a huge FOSS supporter and this is how the Fediverse not only survives, but thrives and grows - buy in from big players. Otherwise, when X/Twitter inevitably dies, another proprietary app takes its place. We just have to hold them accountable and educate users that there are Fedi apps outside Threads.

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• fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Agreed. The entire point of this federation and it is being essentially burned because someone wants to join.

  I’ll use a very loose and likely wrong political analogy.

  If a right wing group says the left wing are not inclusive and blocking certain people from joining. The left wing denies this and says anyone can join. So a right wing member tries to join and the left wing says “sorry not you”.

  Let threads join. Don’t subscribe to any of their communities. Simple.

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