I might not be understanding something about the fediverse, but isn’t this like if you couldn’t send or receive email from a friend because you use gmail Google decided to block @icloud domains?

Like, you’re not forced to follow or interact with it, and are free to block it if you can think of a reason to, I just don’t see why such an open platform used to limit users in this way

  • TheOneCurly@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The concept as I understand it is that Threads has the sheer volume of content to completely drown out the existing Fedi content if it fully opens the floodgates. If that occurs and say 90% of content becomes Threads and then they start making Threads only extensions to Activity Pub, servers will have to start patching those in and the Activity Pub project is defacto owned by Meta.

    People also have issues with the Meta content moderation and the population on Threads, but as you noted that’s fixable on an individual and community level. The existential threat to the future of the Fediverse is why servers should defederate. Meta can’t and shouldn’t be trusted with any amount of power over this community project.

  • Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    I went to fedi to avoid big corporations and what they’ve done with social media. Why would I want their platform having access to my posts? I don’t trust meta or any of the other big tech companies. In fact, the main mastodon instance I use blocks threads entirely and that’s one of the reasons I joined it.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    I don’t want to interact with anything related to that company. There’s a reason I don’t have accounts on any of their platforms. I don’t like them.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I think the argument is that Meta would hoover up and profit from posts from people who don’t consent to use it. AFAIK, you can’t block an instance from seeing your posts and comments, so the only real option is defederation.

    • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      3 months ago

      You can’t block anything from seeing your posts and comments though. That is point of a free and public space. Defederation isn’t doing what you think it is

        • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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          3 months ago

          only until llm scrapers hit the market. they will make the api requirement negligible. like reddit is finding out now… you can block your api all you want but people are just going to scrape your public site.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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            3 months ago

            Sure, but that’s not the issue at all. The issue is that they’d be linking lemmy content from within Threads, as in using Lemmy content to drive engagement for Threads. Whether it’s used in an LLM is another matter entirely. Without direct API integration, Lemmy posts and comments won’t show up in Threads. That’s my take on why people want to defederate.

            • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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              3 months ago

              so youre saying meta may use the information youre publicly posting as if it was public information?

              e. solution seems simple. require login to view content… or dont

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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        3 months ago

        this is exactly it. these people are posting public information, and are then getting butt-hurt when its used a public resource.

        im running an mbin instance (shoutout https://moist.catsweat.com !), which does connect to threads. I purposefully avoided using lemmy as its not capable of doing that. I wanted to give people stuck in the FB walled garden a path out where they could still communicate with their friends and family on threads.

        my only concern with threads is one of resource management/volume. I cant have their stream physically take down my server, so that would be the only reason for me to block them.

        a rather large lemmy contingent are vehemently, emotionally anti-meta. see also the ‘fedipact’

  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
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    3 months ago

    Lots of people love to defederate anything at the drop of a hat.

    That’s it.

    In reality, threads and lemmy aren’t even the same type of thing and are unlikely to intersect on a regular basis, in the same way you don’t see many posts from mastodon or pleroma.

    One thing I find funny about the whole thing is meta is a bunch of corpos, so it isn’t that hard to just get them to defederate from you if you’re willing to grow a spine. My network is blocked, and I believe it’s because I called the maintainer of fediblock a nazi gestapo a bunch of times and demanded they add my site to their list of wrongthinkers or I’d call them doubleplus ungood, thus getting on a list that mindless drones use because it’s easier to just follow orders, regardless of where those orders come from.

    lol

  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    3 months ago

    Well, this was extremely disappointing. Only one person had a helpful reply, pointing to this link explaining the basics, a couple others vaguely gestured about their distaste of Meta, and everyone else demonstrated an even lesser understanding of the fediverse than I had started with. One particular flat-earther just called me a slag and posted a screenshot of themselves downvoting all my comments.

    • stembolts@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      “Everyone disagrees with me, that is insane because I am clearly smarter than them all. Why won’t all you idiot people agree with me?!”

      All of your comments in one reductive nutshell.

      You seem to have low self-awareness. Do you happen to be autistic?

      • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.worksOP
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        3 months ago

        When did anyone disagree with me? Using “autistic” as a pejorative is more revealing oof your character than mine. Good luck!

        • stembolts@programming.dev
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          3 months ago

          Believe it or not I didn’t mean it as a pejorative and I was literally asking. I continue to perceive the comment-in-question as having low self-awareness but tbh, who cares. But if I’m honest with myself I did intend to be rude when I wrote my comment and I don’t believe anyone benefits when I write in that state of mind. So I apologize for that.

          I find nothing wrong with being autistic besides that it entails additional challenges that folks face when dealing with allistic people and vice versa. But we understand it a bit more each day.

    • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Or people checked your comment history and saw that your first ever comment was to vote against defederation, and you haven’t done anything besides drop pseud-posts whenever people expressed their desire not to federate with Threads. That does not look like good faith engagement to me.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    There’s a lot of reactionary anti-corpo types here. There’s really no good reason for users to want to defederate from a Facebook owned instance. It’s also a pointless stance, as threads is a Twitter/mastodon style site and not really compatible with reddit/lemmy style sites.

    There are some technical reasons to avoid federating for those hosting instances. The software forces local copies of everything users subscribe to which is a massive space concern. There’s also a problem with performance of syncing that data for large instances that’s already a problem with .world size instances, where it can take a day+ to process new comments.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      There’s really no good reason for users to want to defederate from a Facebook owned instance.

      Yeah why would anyone object to a company that manipulated people for the fascist who tried to overthrow the US government, and recently hired a co-author of Project 2025? ‘You just don’t like it!’