Thank you very much, that's a great point -- I'll update the post to include it!
I think we're in violent agreement here: getting the EU to drop their objections is certainly one way around them! So yeah, they'll probably try to use the demand for Threads to push back on the DMA's anti-trust-ish provisions (which as I understand is the current blockage). And then they'll try to use their ActivityPub integration to push back on the interoperability requirements, no doubt characterizing them as unrealistic. It's predictable but still irritating.
Yes, I certainly constructed the sentence to highlight the different reactions. Later in the article I say "And by prioritizing their desire to be embraced by Meta over queer and trans people's safety, Meta's cis advocates undercut their claims to be allies in ways that may be hard to recover from" -- which is true no matter what Meta does or doesn't wind up doing with Threads. Of course it's not the only thing going on, but I think it's important enough that it's worth highlighting.
Welcome! A bit more on kbin and lemmy as reddit alternatives:
You can follow and post to Lemmy communities from kbin, upvote and downvote posts, and leave comments. The same the other way around. At least, you can when it's working, sometimes bugs get in the way!
You can also follow and post to either from Mastodon, and make comments, but you can't upvote or downvote from Mastodon.
In general Mastodon's a more Twitter-like experience, Lemmy is Reddit-like, and KBin merges the two -- it's got a "microblog" tab as well as the link aggregation.
Update: If you don't like Mastodon's interface, there's also CalcKey, which has a very different feel. I've got an account blahaj.zone, which is a very queer-friendly CalcKey instances, and there are others as well including calckey.lgbt.
toot.cat's a great site, I've had an account there since 2017, and it's very queer-friendly. I don't know whether the current admin has stated their gender so you might want to check on that.
With eightpoint, quite a few sites defederated late last year because of information that one of their moderators was actually somebody who is widely seen as a serial abuser, has a reputation for inflitrating and wrecking radical left spaces, and has in the past cooperated with the FBI ... but was using a different name on eightpoint (as they have multiple times in the past). Of course in a situation like this, everybody makes up their own minds about how believable the information is; for what it's worth, I found it quite convincing. Anyhow, eightpoint's admin initially strongly backed the moderator, and accusations of bad faith went in both directions. The moderator stepped down and left but it's hard to recover trust after a situation like that.
EDIT: @jenalyze@queer.af gave the abuser's name elsewhere in the thread.
Yeah, seem unlikely.
Timely! Are you planning on doing kbin as well?
welcome @nyarlahotep an @lemdoeswhatreddont!
My take is that at some point open registrations either lead to the site getting overloaded or become a magnet for spammers, trolls, and disinfo. So one approach is to leave them open as long as there's a fair amount of spare hardware capacity and there aren't reports of significant spamming, trolling, and disinfo on other sites with open registrations -- but be ready to limit down open registrations at least temporarily at the first sign of trouble.
oh great, now i've got trolls 🤣
(j/k obviously)
yes a great opportunity to experiment. thanks for doing this!
No, followers-only posts are not public -- upvote if you agree!