Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.

3 years ago by mypasswordis1234 to c/fediverse

1. Meta/Facebook has a horrific track record on human rights: - https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence - https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview 2. Meta/Facebook is trying to join the Fediverse. We need to defederate them. 3. If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net" (here's how on Mastodon https://fedi.tips/how-to-defederate-fediblock-a-server-on-mastodon/) 4. If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net". Your admin is listed on your server website's About page.

Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net"

If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net".

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DaBPunkt 6 points 3 years ago

I’m against the defederation. The internet and the www are based on the idea of connection.

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glukoza 31 points 3 years ago

That is naive look on it. Meta(Facebook) is a company, it's always company interest and only company interest. The idea of fediverse is to stay out of data tracking, user profiling, not to help it in any way. Connecting with meta is workoing aginst fediverse. It might be a mistake fediverse never recovers from, even now it's really small fedi community.

Why would we as fedi users, mods and admins help meta or any other company, for what, for their interest that they sell on "we love fediverse", "cusotmer first" bla bla bla.

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DaBPunkt -10 points 3 years ago

Imaging for a moment all non-company-mail-servers would block all company-mail-servers (like gmail). Would that be a good idea?

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Skeletonek -16 points 3 years ago

Idea of Fediverse is to provide decentralized network of social servers connected to each other. Defederation is an optional feature if some instance would go rogue. For now, connecting with Threads is not against Fediverse, it's the opposite. Connecting with Threads fullfills the idea of Fediverse.

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Lucia 17 points 3 years ago

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rottingleaf 4 points 3 years ago

So let people register and use Fediverse. Meta may provide some new cool thing which will talk via ActivityPub, and people may install and host it. That's the acceptable way for their contribution.

Attaching a whole platform controlled by them centrally - no.

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