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Not sure if you run this site, but it looks like mastodon.world has gone public and said that they will not be preemptively defederating Threads just fyi
I'm not signing up for Threads, but looking at some of the stuff other people show me coming out of there, it might end up just being yet-another-nazi-instance when they open up federation so might just end up getting blocked on those terms and not so much the "being meta/facebook" terms.
I'm still on the fence about that being a good thing. I'm kind of looking forward to being able to see Twitter style content from major companies but without ads via my Mastodon account.
Why do you think a large corporation would just share their content to people who aren't viewing their ads?
They're not just being generous. Corporations are not benevolent. So what are they expecting to get from it?
Here's the answer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
companies want to reach users, so they join Threads.
meta wants to federate Threads because it allows them to claim that they are not a “gatekeeper” under the EU’s new social media law and therefore not have legal responsibility for the content hosted by it.
a side effect of this is that I can view content posted by companies on Threads via a federated instance.
This is not necessarily the corp’s intention or them being generous. it is just a direct result of Meta using the fediverse as a loophole to get around an EU law and how ActivityPup functions.
I don’t actually think that this is an example of EEE because the Fediverse is not more popular than typical social media experiences, nor does it desire to become more popular or take over things like Facebook or Twitter. It simply wants to be a smaller alternative. I really think if it weren’t for the EU, meta would not be federating Threads.
that's the thing, I see all content from major companies as ads.
Right after I logged into Threads, with a new account, by first 2 pages were posts from Zuck, Wendy’s, Netflix, a Facebook fanboy, and another Wendy’s ad. I tried to screen shot it, but the shit app realized I was idle, and used that as an opportunity to refresh the content.
30 million people jumped into this stupid thing this AM.
I wouldn't mind having the ability to send angry messages to them again, especially if me not following them also means I don't ever see their content in my feed.
Do we also have this list for Lemmy instances?
Suspending them before they have actually done anything wrong is a bit like a pre-crime.
You don't let pedophiles babysit your kids, and you don't let Facebook federate with your social network.
It's not like "they" are some unknown quantity though, it's the Facebook people. It's not weird or unreasonable for people to not want the company that got fined literally a billion euros for data privacy violations just a couple of months ago to get involved in a thing they like
I'm not on Facebook but I know people who are, and they are just ordinary people who made a poor choice and didn't read the terms and conditions. It's all those people who you are excluding, not just Facebook employees.
They already spread medical disinfo like wildfire, got someone who sold our state secrets to the highest bidder elected, and house sociopathic terrorists like libsoftiktok. That's enough.
So Meta is up and running now on threads.net, news to me. Hell yeah, ban the crap out of them.
What is the benefit of “banning the crap out of them?”
This is how the tried and true agenda goes using Meta's threads.net and the Fediverse as an example.
So yeah, ban the shit out of them. The proper term is defederate them, but do it with extreme prejudice.
