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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[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ability to choose with whom to federate with is a core concept of the Fediverse

If you don't want any defederation, join an instance that doesn't do it.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, that's not a core concept of Fediverse, that's exactly the opposite. You want echo chambers? There are plenty of them already. It should be the user who decides what content to see and with which instances to interact, not instance admins.

Imagine Chrome not allowing you to visit specific sites and then Firefox not allowing you to visit a different set of sites. That would be a death of the web.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine Chrome not allowing you to visit specific sites and then Firefox not allowing you to visit a different set of sites.

Imagine a worse, less fitting analogy

You can literally spin up your own instance in 20 minutes and see every instance ever if you'd like, it's a choice and its good to have

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

You can build your variant of Chrome yourself as well. Analogy is fitting.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, and it will end up with huge echochambers full of xenophobes scared of everything and defederating everyone. Defederation is the last step, not the first. Here, paranoia over what might happen years later down a very slippery slope makes people throw away the opportunity to actually grow the platform instead of leaving it with barely any people at all.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

baby its not xenophobic to defederate, calm down

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No one said such a thing. Where did you get it from?

[–] catchy_name@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago

Do you see the comment from user “Maalus” immediately prior to the comment that you first replied to? That’s where it was said.

If you cannot see that comment it’d be interesting to understand why. Maybe you have blocked that user so can’t see his comment but you are seeing replies to it?

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't get why they want to defederate without any experience of it either. Let's see what Meta brings to the table. Maybe they'll shine a light on the Fediverse and we get a more varied group of people on the platform.

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What Meta has brought to the table in the past. "Maybe we should give them a ~~second~~ ~~third~~ ~~fourth~~ umpteenth chance!

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anyone wondering it's a long winded article blaming meta for a genocide, personally I don't really see how it fits the conversation beyond 'zuck bad' because it's nothing that's going to happen here

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It is an illustration (and a particularly powerful one) of just where Meta's ethics lie.

You don't invite serial killers to your Halloween party. You don't invite Meta to your online community. Same reason in both cases.