Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.

• Chozo@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  what happens to existing culture on fediverse

  Likely nothing. If Threads users are problematic, then instances can defederate later.

  Doing it preemptively or forming a pact is just absurd, though. It's treating the users of Threads as a threat, instead of Meta (who can and will still be able to harvest anything they want from the Fediverse, because that's how ActivityPub works), and that's not fair to them who didn't ask to be thrown into our community in the first place.

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  • sour@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    defederate later

    problem often causes damage before is addressed

    they signed up for threads

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    • Chozo@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If that's how you want to run your instance, that's your right to do. But for community-based instances, the users should have some say in the matter.

      Yes, I can move to another instance if mine decides to defederate, but that's a lot of hassle that I'd have to go through because of a decision somebody else made for me, all because they can't or won't moderate themselves.

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      • squiblet@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you don't like decisions somebody else makes for you, then run your own instance.

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      • sour@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        hold vote

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    • yOya@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      problem often causes damage before is addressed

      pre block be safer

      You build a bridge. After awhile it might start to decay and without proper upkeep it might even collapse! Better to never build a bridge in the first place.

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      • Dieinahole@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I'd rather not build a bridge to the land of festering pustules to begin with

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      • sour@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        bridge wont hurt you when decay

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  • liquidparasyte@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Clearly you haven’t dealt with a Mastodon instance having a major defederation event.

    For most users, regardless of the validity of the defed, the user experience is terrible. Their social graph just suddenly, stops working, the people they follow can no longer see their posts, all because of the actions of a few bad actors or administration failures.

    This paired with the fact that maybe only Firefish or Misskey lets you (mostly) seamlessly migrate to a new instance with your data intact, and the lack of a standard way to see what followers you will actually keep when you migrate, means that the defederation experience is sucks, and migrating to a different instance to escape that is a pain in the ass.

    Meta has already shown it has piss poor moderation in the best of times, and actively boosts incendiary content in the worst of times, all while collecting, profiling, and exploiting your data. It’s literally inevitable that they’re going to break the rules of all but the free-est of free speech Instances, so for the privacy, safety, and headaches of everyone in the fediverse, we might as well save ourselves the trouble.**

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• mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most people on Threads aren’t pro-corporate, they don’t actually give a shit about that. They’re just too confused by the decentralized model to be on Mastodon, and wanted somewhere to be other than Twitter.

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  • sour@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    aren't pro corporate
    threads can still have more than fediverse

    use analogy instead

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    • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except I have no idea WTF that reply means so good luck getting threads users to understand it.

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      • sour@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ._.

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