Daily reminder to defederate from and block threads.net (and optionally all instances that do not do the same).

Like Mastodon, but commercialized?

They slowly start it. When Google killed XMPP they also didn’t do it within a week.

Meta just pays enough.

The thing is, Meta does not care about community safety, or moderation, or protecting user data. (Fun fact: they don’t have a data protection agreement, but a data usage agreement.) All they care about is how they can get the most money out of something. Killing off things left and right of their path.

The question is not IF Meta kills the Fediverse but only WHEN they do it.

So wasn’t Google when they killed XMPP.

I cannot see anything bad here. Blocking an actively malicious actor should be the norm.

That’s just paid advertising.

I know about muenster.im which is a Mastodon instance specific to the city of Münster. There is also mastodon.hamburg for example.

Those are not local-by-default social media services, though. But I guess it’s easier to find an instance with a local focus instead of “Jodel but federated”.

What’ll really happen.

https://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/articles/fediblock-facebook-and-threads.html

Let’s just hope the judge is not an idiot.

Looking forward to Forgejo supporting it in the far future.

To be honest? At “Infanty”. In the Fediverse it has relevance, but the impact on the whole Internet is basically zero.

They aren’t. They use the same protocol as a base, and you can have limited interaction, but that’s it.

Why would they undo those changes. They did r/place, that should be enough. And yes, the protests have ended.

lemmy.ml was also down recently for half a day or so. But lemmy.ml was never knwon for being reliable, even it it works fine since some time now.

Yeah. Since Reddit is back to normal, the majority of people who left it due to protest now returns.

So you want to centralize the decentralized nature of the Fediverse through a company running off venture capital?

This happens very often here. lemmy.ml isn’t reliable and the performance is very bad.

I still don’t get their target audience for Threads.

Facebook users don’t want to leave their weird boomer Internet bubble. Instagram users will continue posting pictures on Instagram and advertise their linktr.ee account where they link to their 18+ content because they’re not allowed to link in directly from Instagram, and 𝕏 users … well … they will continue using 𝕏.

Ironically the only ones wo really care about Threads is people in the Fediverse.