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Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. (mstdn.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is why I don't understand all the hysteria about this.

If I don't want to see Threads or I don't want Threads to see me, I can go to a Threads account and click "block threads.net".

But obviously that's too complicated and it's easier to just whinge to your instance admin about how Threads federation will be the death of us all. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If there was a bot that just flooded All with far right talking points, do you think admins ought to block that or leave it to the users?

What if it was far right mixed in with cat memes?

What if it started more slowly like a few posts an hour and then ramped up over 6 months to be 1000s of posts per hour?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, that's spam. So obviously it would make sense to block that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Sure, but where is the line between spam and threads content? If the content a community produces is heavily manipulated, isn't that undesirable for all the same reasons as spam ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Leave it to users. Let people decide what they want to see.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do you think any users would populate a place that's over-run with trash?

If there are, would they be the type of users who would populate communities you would feel comfortable in?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you think any users would populate a place that’s over-run with trash?

Facebook.
Instagram.
Twitter (pre-Apartheid Edgelord).
Twitter/X (post-Apartheid Edgelord).
… and a cast of hundreds.

Seems that yes, they would.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

... that's why I included the second sentence?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You will only see the “trash” if you subscribe to users from Threads.