And mastodon users who seem to be the most vocal of fediverse users on this no issue can already block by domain without federation or de federation needing to be mentioned.

Meta don’t need to federate to get your data either. So I have to wonder why we have so many posts all saying the same thing attempting to rile users up.

Personally I don’t care either way if meta/threads fails or succeeds I won’t be using it and I won’t be following any of their users. I would much rather be reading positive things about what people are doing in the fediverse than doom and gloom

Yeah but that’s a user going looking for racist memes from racist uncle. As default they wouldn’t show up unless you followed them but I guess that’s the same for any social media.

I think it’s important to realise that meta is going to roll out threads federation at some point however it hasn’t done it yet and as level headed people we need to wait until that happens and how it looks rather than shooting our own foot off before someone breaks into our home because we’ve been riled up by basically the same posts worded slightly differently over and over.

In the case of racist uncle wouldnt you need to follow racist uncle to see his racist memes?

I had problems getting this to work on several of the larger mastodon instances when I’ve tried it previously. I ended up moving to a completely different mastodon instance and it just worked as described

Oh I can guarantee some loser has taken it upon themselves to do this to in their eyes protect their beloved website

I haven’t read the post over on Reddit, I refuse to visit the site.

Of course there will be misinformation floating around there always is in these kind of situations, reddit would be a ghost town over night otherwise

If the people running a server want to vet people that’s upto them they pay the bills? I remember some mastodon servers used to do the same.

It’s great to see more Lemmy/Kbin instances being stood up despite what some moaning Micheal might think of the platform.