Flax_vert@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I think we should encourage politicians, governments and public figures to either self host or use non-threads instances. That way, Threads cannot easily shut off AP support or screw around too badly or their own content will decline.
Right now, social.bbc is a thing. Hopefully when threads launches activitypub, they’d notice that having a presence on both threads and their own instance is pointless, and prefer their own instance
I think we should encourage politicians, governments and public figures to either self host or use non-threads instances. That way, Threads cannot easily shut off AP support or screw around too badly or their own content will decline.
Yes to this and defederate as well.
Why defederate though? All that will accomplish is preventing Threads users from seeing their message, effectively silencing the journalist on Threads before Facebook has a chance to.
They don’t care about our cause that much. They have other reasons we can use to convince them. Also, defederating isn’t the main goal here. The main goal is to stop Meta from doing Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Because it will make Meta reliant on ActivityPub, so they cannot pull the ActivityPlug
It would be great, but Threads has said that their plans are that people will have to opt in to federation. So if they follow through, why would politicians (or the others you mention) prefer to be on an instance where they only get access to a fraction of Threads’ huge audience?
It would push threads to have federation to be Opt-out
Why would Threads want to do that? Opt-in is better for their users from a privacy and safety perspective, and it’s better for their business because it makes migration harder. And if Threads doesn’t do that, politicians et al care more about reaching a large audience than about pushing Threads to try to change their mind.
Scrollone@feddit.it 10 months ago
The EU also has an official Mastodon instance:
social.network.europa.eu/explore
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 10 months ago
Damn, @EU_Comission has 90000+ followers, nice.