Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta - Lemmy
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It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it’s users will not be allowed to proceed. We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.
  • exocortex@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    How does that work? Is threads using a protocol compatible to lemmy? (And I fully agree with the preemptive blocking of any facebook stuff).

    Edit: thanks for all the detailled answers.

    So Facebook tries the old EEE - Embrace Extend Extinguish. 1.A big company is Embracing an open source standard ("we’re friendly, see?) They get a lot of users that way - even the open source savvy types. 2.they start Extending that standard “to make it even better” - but not talking about these changes with the rest of the community first. They cannot react quickly enough and become incompatible with the new version of this standard. 3.Extinguish. When all the users are effectively using the big companies platform with something that isn’t the original standard anymore they change it so much that it isn’t compatible at all anymore or replace it completely.

    • Rhabuko@feddit.deEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yes. Threads wants to use the ActivityPub Protokoll. We can interact with Kbin and Mastodon users thanks to this Protocol. The fear is that they use their huge user base to change the protocol to their liking (basically take control over the ActivityPub) and everyone who wants to stay federated with them and their users has to adapt those changes until the day they will simply cut everyone off.

      • HopperMCS@twisti.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        When they do go that route, I propose the community fork the standard and continue work that way. We already do this with code.

  • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I don’t generally judge people based on their appearance, but this man’s face gives me the heebie-jeebies. There’s something alienating about the lack of affect he seems to have, plus his features seem to be an approximation of a human face - the mouth is too small, the ears too big, the forehead too shiny…

  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Yeah, the problem here as I see it is that just the same as Twitter, this social media service is still owned by a single owner corporation who is running the service for a profit and they will eventually sell user data or bastardize the service. Ive been on the internet for 30 years, social media and websites come and go and so does their popularity.

    Which raises another point, how are the bills being paid for with any of these services, including lemmy? TAANSTAFL.

    • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Which raises another point, how are the bills being paid for with any of these services, including lemmy?

      The hope is with user donations. As far as I know every instance is losing money though.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Don’t see why people are doing this. You’ll just damage the fediverse and discourage meta from federating, granting them their own walled garden that you cannot use without selling your soul to them, which is going to dissuade people from using Mastodon as what’s the point if people on threads cannot see what they have