They’re here, sure, because they’re everywhere. But the platform doesn’t amplify their addiction via careful rage-baiting algorithmic feeds.

19 years of unsubstantiation.

How much does Meta pay you to shill, I wonder?

Meta has no control over elections but has had definitive negative impact on the same. Meta has no control over Myanmar’s government nor Buddhist institutions yet had had definitive negative impact (to the tune of tens of thousands of bodies and millions of displaced people) on that nation.

This one fact alone should give you pause about letting Meta stink up the fediverse: Threads’ userbase is so large that the entire fediverse, all platforms, is a rounding error by comparison.

So federating with Threads means federating with a userbase that has been algorithmically-conditioned to doomscroll and rage (because that causes “engagement” by which Meta means “ad revenue”) for well over a decade and letting them loose in the fediverse at large.

Fuck that noise.

Let Meta stay in its own smelly shack with the faecal discharge coating the floor, the walls, and the windows. I don’t want that here.

Dude, go to fucking Meta if you want to talk to fucking Meta’s ragebait monkeys. The “normies” as you put it are welcome in the fediverse as far as I’m concerned, just not fucking META. Nothing but sloth is preventing the “normies” from getting into the fediverse.

Now go fuck off and troll elsewhere.

You completely missed the point.

There’s a HUGE number of ragebait posters on Meta/Xhitter because that’s what causes “engagement” and thus that’s what the Meta algorithms will foster. Bringing in Meta won’t dilute the ragebait. It will amplify it.

I’m sure that was very clever when you said it in your head.

You don’t “implement” a license. For fuck’s sake could you at least learn the terminology of a domain before spouting opinions on it?!

It is an illustration (and a particularly powerful one) of just where Meta’s ethics lie.

You don’t invite serial killers to your Halloween party. You don’t invite Meta to your online community. Same reason in both cases.

And yet, despite “knowing” that Meta is a known bad actor, you’re fine with “wait and see” when John Wayne Gacy wants to come to the block party.

It’s not normies I’m spiteful toward. It’s MOTHERFUCKING META. The fact that the normies are going and supporting a known abuser with almost two decades’ worth of fucking everything up is a “them” problem, not a “me” problem.

You don’t like Meta. You’re just arguing vociferously for inviting Meta, a company with nearly two decades of documented abuse of everything they touch, into another space for them to fuck over.

Pull the other one, Sparky. It plays Jingle Bells.

The people on Tumblr are entirely unlike me … but I have no issues federating with Tumblr.

You might want to consider why this is the case.

Yes it is, but it’s not your fault. You can only manage to type a single word at a time before forming a full sentence even.

Your inability to read (or possibly think, not sure which) is a you problem, not a me problem.

“Jeffrey doesn’t always eat people. Just sometimes. We should totally go clubbing with him and spurn him later if he eats one of us.”

“Back” is doing some seriously heavy lifting in that sentence. One might say you’re breaking that sentence’s back.

It’s certainly better than just alluding to them with stuff that would embarrass a vaguebooking teen.

ActivityPub can’t license anything. When you identify actual human beings in this conversation, perhaps you might have a point. So far you don’t.

Every open protocol that survives past the first couple of days of actual use, no exceptions, has some mechanism whereby bad actors can be removed.

Don’t use “open protocol” as your excuse for sucking Zuck the Fuck off.

Sign up on Threads if you want Threads content. Fucking duh.