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”.

  • aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    Yeah dude let’s just federate with an instance maintained by a corporation that has undoubtedly caused a genocide in Myanmar by turning a blind eye to a far-right hate speech group that caused an entire fucking minority to flee into another country.

    I don’t get why people are supporting and saying “oh it must be up to the user” like bro this is the company we’re dealing with. Fuck that fuck threads fuck zuckerberg i don’t want his shit cancer near something that’s going well so far.

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      11 months ago

      Israel have been successfully pressuring meta to remove and shadow ban accounts sympathetic to Palestinians. The level of censorship is crazy.

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        11 months ago

        OK, I’ll bite. You got something more substantial than “I read it on the internet” to back that up? One reputable source on your accusation? Not sayin’ you’re lying/wrong, just asking for some verifiable proof.

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          11 months ago

          At the moment this is coming from secondary sources from within meta so there are no articles about it that I’m aware of. But Palestinians and activists constantly have their content removed, account reach limited, and comments removed (which has happened to me multiple times). People also have their accounts threatened and removed.

          These actions are visible constantly, meta have been doing this since the start. For example, when you go to someone’s stories at the top it might show 4 or 5 stories, but when you click through to their profile there’ll be 20+.

          Some people I follow don’t even show up at the top anymore and I have to access their stories via their profile page or if I’ve messaged them recently.

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            11 months ago

            After (as of this reply) eight hours, you have produced nothing more than anecdotal evidence if not outright invented. I must assume at this point you are spreading disinformation for whatever your goals may be to that end.

            Thank you for wasting everybody’s time.

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              11 months ago

              Welcome to Lemmy!

              It’s like Reddit with the provocative takes and hyperbole, but even more extreme somehow!

              This place is hilarious.

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          11 months ago

          Numerous actual popular accounts and news sources have been suspended. It was major news in the Arabic-speaking world in October. Meta even apologized for auto-translating Palestinian as “terrorist.”

      • aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 months ago

        I’m not sure if federating will help meta so much as it will definitely (most probably) hurt the lemmy/mastodon network.

        Here’s a similar case that happened before, with the XMPP protocol being coopted by google but eventually killing it in favor of their own proprietary solution:

        https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

        Big tech isn’t on our side, and we have to handle outside corporate influence with heavy skepticism.

    • ???@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      If they want to hang out with us, they can make an account somewhere other than thread, bam, done!

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        11 months ago

        If they want to hang out with us, they can make an account somewhere other than thread, bam, done!

        “make another account somewhere” isn’t really what federation is about.

        • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          Indeed it is, they’re not saying you have to make an account on that person’s server, they’re saying that you can make it on a different server, that’s the point of federation you can join other servers that are connected to them. It’s not to be fully open without any limitations, because if it were then content moderation would be impossible.

          Services like Nostr have this problem, they are like the wild West where anything goes and you can’t do anything about it. To some people that seems great but the fact of the matter is those services are filled with right-wing trolls and crypto scammers (likely plenty of other nasty stuff as well) because they cannot be moderated.