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Please don’t get worked up over a 4chan post…

I will never use any instance that federates with instances that federate with instances not run by someone as a hobby. Imagine what could happen if they threaten us to defederate!

You’re not fooling anyone.

How do you know? We should fix this on the software level.

So we should defederate because we will have issues defederating due to the amount of content we lose? Isn’t that kind of self-contradictory?

I like your considerations, but there are no conclusions on how users/admins/developers should act to achieve this ideal state.

I don’t see any spam from threads.net.

If a user blocks a domain I suppose their content isn’t send to that server anymore I hope?

From my point of view the mathematicians are evil.

Well, then you are lost!

Yes. It’s a window manager, not tmux.

If the instance defederates, users do not have an option to interact with the defederated instance anymore. The only choice you have then is to join an instance where the moderation policy agrees with your values or host your own instance. If you just want to see if defederation was the right idea, you could just visit those instances directly and look at their local timeline.

You could seed the Torrents by the internet archive.

This didn’t happen. In fact Google was the one who fell behind development when the protocol moved on and deprecated unencrypted connections for example. People just don’t make it a priority to use XMPP instead of the walled gardens they are using now.

Then it must have gotten a lot better in the meantime then. I discovered it ~2020 while searching for alternatives to WhatsApp and realizing that other walled gardens cannot be the answer since they have the same problem as WhatsApp. I think we should revive the idea of an universal internet standard for instant messaging.

Freedom isn’t letting everything be or letting anyone do anything.

I only talked about communicating with Threads users not “anything”.

When meta kills off 99% of Lemmy servers

Why should Meta be able to do this?

XMPP works great, you just have to use it. It doesn’t invalidate anything.

Why? It works great for me and my contacts. I use it for all my personal messaging.

XMPP works great on mobile devices today. Google could have easily developed and published such extensions themselves.

It’s your freedom as an admin to block them, but indeed the cost is the freedom of your users to communicate with people on Threads. As a user I would prefer an instance that doesn’t restrict my communications in that way.

This. I don’t care what Google or Meta do, I will never use their services.