• Rottcodd@lemmy.ninja
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    Funny thing - the last time I saw a promising forum destroyed, the beginning of the end was when people got all in a panic about some purported external threat and started demanding a “united front” to combat it. Then they started calling for retribution against anyone who didn’t join them. Then they just kept fanning the flames of hostility against anyone on the forum that they decided wasn’t sufficiently devoted to their cause, and the forum ended up tearing itself apart from within.

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      Allowing meta to be federated with anything is like inviting the world’s best arsonist your house warming party.

      Also, allowing meta or any other of the BP is like pissing your pants, feel nice warm in the beginning…

      EEE is a known and well deployed tactic. And a lot larger threat than your perceived division of the user base.

      Join threads if you wish but don’t bring the fediverse down with you.

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        I have no intention of joining Threads, or of being a part of any instance that’s federated with them.

        And that’s entirely beside the point. I’m not arguing the merits (or lack thereof) of Threads or of federation with them.

        I’m simply relaying the fact that I’ve already seen a forum destroyed by the sort of internal strife you’re fomenting.

        And it should be noted that with your response, you’re still following the script exactly, by jumping to the conclusion that because I criticized your call for a “united front,” I must be on the side of the enemy.

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          Well here we are , we have 2 different points diverging. Everyone that wants to keep BD away as much as possible and your point that allowing them to fester and not only effecting your data but all of ours.

          I believe the majority will decide that they are tired of BD and want an alternative that is free from corporate overlords.

          Perhaps your fake unity not to splinter that is the problem and not my call for united Front?

          It’s quite obvious that we who do not want it will not participate in helping meta.

          What option do you leave us with?

          Not walling them off will be the problem in the long run.

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      This is getting ridiculous. Every thread about this is just people parroting “embrace, extend, extinguish” and “enshittification” ad nauseam. No one is actually saying how they could accomplish that. Even if they’re technically federated (which I doubt will happen, Meta will probably just want to federate with a couple of the biggest Mastodon servers) we will barely interact with them at all, think of how rarely Mastodon posts show up here. This is a grounded article on what’s going on: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

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        Yeah - I read that article yesterday.

        While I agree that the panic is tiresome, I wouldn’t call that a “grounded” article. It struck me as entirely predictable PR fluff from the “CEO” of Mastodon, which is to say, the specific person who stands to profit the most from any sort of deal with Meta.

        The strength of the fediverse is its freedom, and specifically each individual’s freedom to create an instance or join any instance they prefer. So my plan is to simply exercise my freedom as I see fit, and without submitting to the rhetoric either of people who are trying to convince me to panic or trying to convince me to welcome Meta with open arms.

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        Wasn’t he paid by meta and put under an NDA? Would not trust any meta related info from him right now

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    And this is how you gut the Fediverse… Don’t even give people the option to run their own single-user instance to avoid the drama. Defederate them, too. Splinter everything into oblivion.

    EDIT: Seriously. As someone who isn’t a hardcore militant FOSS federation activist, this is the kind of stuff that makes me want to throw up my hands and say, “Screw it. I guess I’ll go sign up at Threads.”

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      I would agree with you if threads didn’t choose to avoid market with decent consumer protection laws, EU.

      They aren’t launching at EU for a reason, and that’s good enough for me to take a stance against them.

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        Just because they haven’t launched in the EU yet doesn’t mean they won’t. They were clearly rushing to get this out the door. I’d be absolutely shocked if they don’t go to the EU since Facebook and Instagram are there already.

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          Facebook is in a lot of shit with EU right now because of GDPR non compliance. They are at a risk of just getting flat out booted from here if they don’t fix their shit.

          That combined with the upcoming Digital Markets Act means they might not get a chance to launch here at all

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        Won’t they have to comply with at least some EU laws in order to become federated? If EU residents can interact with Threads via another instance, they’ll still be on the hook for all of that mirrored data.

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      This isn’t FOSS behavior, this is just liberal virtue signaling behavior. I was hoping this behavior stayed on Mastodon where I purged a lot of it. Was really hoping that plague wouldn’t hit Lemmy.

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          Wait until you realize that liberal does not mean left wing. Liberalism is a right wing ideology.

          edit: to the guy who replied and blocked, complex political ideologies aren’t reduced to just a simple 4 way political compass lol. Don’t get your political knowledge from r/politicalcompassmemes

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              I’ve had multiple conversations about liberalism and come to realize there’s a multitude of definitions none of which make complete sense. A left-wing definition might be “liberal democratic capitalism” like most of Europe is, with neoliberal being a more right-wing version of that like the US. A right-winger might use liberal to mean someone culturally progressive. Sometimes liberal is used to mean someone who wants a smaller government, sometimes it is confused with libertarianism (which was originally left-wing but co-opted by free market capitalists).

              I don’t think the term “liberal” is useful anymore, it’s mostly thrown around towards people you perceive to be the status quo.

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      EDIT: Seriously. As someone who isn’t a hardcore militant FOSS federation activist, this is the kind of stuff that makes me want to throw up my hands and say, “Screw it. I guess I’ll go sign up at Threads.”

      Nobody is stopping you

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    I hate defederation for things like this. This should be a user’s choice, not imposed by the instance itself. I hate how the fediverse forces the moderation choices on you.

    I dont care that instagram uses activityPub. As long as I can use activityPub myself, thats enough for me. Most people will always stick with big social media, and I would rather be able to interact with them vs. not

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      Why shouldn’t the instance owner make that choice? It’s their hardware, time, money, and desire that made that instance. As soon as I start one, first thing I’m doing is making sure it never gets federated with fashy instances or meta.