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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Go to some junk instance that’s willing to federate if you want.

  The Mastodon instance I use already does and absolutely nothing negatively happened to it. Mastodon users can just block entire instances on their own if they happen to not like any content from there.

  Federating with Threads makes an instance unacceptable as far as most of us are concerned. Their mere existence is malignant.

  That’s based on conspiracy theories and not an actually informed decision based on how the Fediverse works. Most of you don’t even understand that Threads content wouldn’t even show up on Lemmy in the first place. Threads doesn’t even have communities.

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  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because Facebook hasn’t done anything yet.

    Blocking Facebook as a user is not good enough. Any server that connects to them legitimizes them and is not acceptable behavior.

    It absolute is not a conspiracy, and most people unwilling to participate in any server that interacts with Facebook in any way are doing so exactly because they understand the technology and Facebook’s history. Literally everything Facebook has ever touched turned to dogshit. “I won’t participate in a platform that doesn’t completely block Facebook” is not the naive, uninformed position. (That’s using Facebook and their other platforms.) It’s the people who recognize how pure fucking evil Facebook is.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because Facebook hasn’t done anything yet.

      And they cannot circumvent to ActivityPub protocol to display ads to users who don’t want so see them. Claiming otherwise is conspiracy theories.

      Blocking Facebook as a user is not good enough

      Yes, it is.

      Any server that connects to them legitimizes them and is not acceptable behavior.

      That’s not for you to decide.

      It absolute is not a conspiracy

      It absolutely is.

      and most people unwilling to participate in any server that interacts with Facebook in any way

      First: That’s untrue.

      Second: Such an opinion is based on conspiracy theories and therefore not valid.

      are doing so exactly because they understand the technology

      No, they and you don’t.

      “I won’t participate in a platform that doesn’t completely block Facebook” is not the naive, uninformed position.

      Yes, it is and you don’t even realize that you are participatin in a platform that doesn’t completely block Facebook Threads right now. That’s proof enough that you don’t understand the technology.

      It’s the people who recognize how pure fucking evil Facebook is.

      Then allowing ad-free access to accounts hosted there should be your agenda. That’s how they don’t get money, not by pushing people to sign up for their platform, just because they want to follow their favorite movie franchise or sports team.

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      • Jimbo@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        yes, it is

        It absolutely is

        No, they and you don’t

        What great arguments you have. Really gonna convince people with that.

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