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Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.

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[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 51 points 1 year ago

"the mass murderer have killed multiple people in Spain and Italy, but we can't just assume he will do the same thing in France"

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

Oh? I missed where Meta had done bad things to previous Fediverses.

[-] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago
[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago
[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

Facebook allowed connecting with XMPP clients for a while and then cut off that access. While they were not the main offender compared to Google, they still did nothing but leech off the XMPP ecosystem until they decided it wasn't in their interest any longer.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago

I'm failing to see what's wrong about this. They used XMPP and then stopped? That seems to be exactly what people angry about Threads federation want Meta to do with ActivityPub.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

The point is that at no point in time where they actually interested in supporting the XMPP federation. It was only a short term tool for them to capture some audience that it would not have otherwise.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Sure, but this is Mastodon, not murders. Much lower stakes.

[-] underisk@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

if the stakes are so low then blocking them is as low-stakes as not, so why make a fuss about it?

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