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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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[-] yuki2501@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago

If you don't give a shit abount Facebook enabling genocide, amplifying white supremacism or, you know, selling milluons of users' private data to the Kremlin, then sure, why not.

This isn't about elitism, this is about a known bad actor threatening to harvest our conversations without our fucking permission, or using Microsoft's tactic of "embrace and extend" to destroy the competition.

Anyone can implement ActivityPub. We have no problem with that. Facebook is a corporation whose business strategy has consistently been about harvesting users' data and selling it to political advertisers.

[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Even if you defederate they can harvest the data.. I mean it's an open protocol.

[-] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why are you only concerned about Facebook doing what you describe?

It's weird that this is downvoted. Is Facebook the only villain in this world or something?

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Ah. Whataboutism … but lacking the courage to even name the other whatabouts. Top-notch disputation that!

[-] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago
[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yes it is, but it's not your fault. You can only manage to type a single word at a time before forming a full sentence even.

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

threatening to harvest our conversations without our fucking permission,

Public posts on social media are well public. There's literally nothing that stops them from reading your posts without federation, and federation does very little to change that in a meaningful way.

or using Microsoft's tactic of "embrace and extend" to destroy the competition

By what, adding features to Threads that make users prefer it over other ActivityPub implementations? The worst case here is that Meta federates, then does something that breaks federation and their users don't jump ship to another instance but stick with the Meta product?

Anyone can implement ActivityPub. We have no problem with that.

So long as they aren't a giant corp you personally see as especially evil, then if they implement ActivityPub they need to be blocked as globally as possible?

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