@mastodonmigration@rexum Personal data usually carries a slightly different meaning than a public profile and posts you choose to broadcast to the open web, and the way this entire thread is written is highly misleading in a disappointing way.
BUT the EU version has a different section for USERS WITHOUT A THREADS PROFILE that probably is in response to EU rules.
The EU version is arguably OK, and would not have generated this post. The issues raised by this post relate to the US version, and specifically to those Fediverse users who do not have a Threads profile.
@GottaLaff@TechConnectify@jztusk@mastodonmigration@Teri_Kanefield@Popehat@mmasnick@mattblaze Furthermore, trolls are on the lower end of the "reasons to avoid Twitter" list while the owner is posting antisemitic conspiracies. Meta quite literally enabled genocide in Myanmar. The Fediverse may require a greater degree of personal responsibility but supporting those companies by encouraging one's following to go there is, IMO, morally contemptible.
Thank you for the positive responses. One thing to clarify is that the quotes cited can lead to the impression that ALL these popular posters are thinking of leaving Mastodon. This is NOT the case or the intention of the post. Rather the problem we are seeing is these and many other regular posters are receiving an increasing amount of frustrating negativism and reflexive nay-saying in the responses. We can do better.
There are hundreds of examples like this of Meta/Facebook's amoral behaviour over the past decade or so. There was even a leaked memo where they said they knew it was going on and didn't care:
As a lay user, I plan on having an account on Mastodon and one on Calckey, one of which allows Meta and one of which doesn’t. I hope admins will include on their instance’s home pages whether they allow or block Meta before people join or migrate.
Rumors are tearing this place apart out here about secret deals with #Meta. The latest is that Meta has held #NDA meetings with some of you and they will federate with large instances under contracts providing financial support (1) (2).
This is a time for leadership, not silence. Please, what's going on?
@mastodonmigration@Gargron@ruud@supernovae@stux@trumpet@kev I don’t have much to say. I have heard that a few people reached out to Meta to find out what they were doing and (maybe?) signed an NDA. There’s a bunch of people being absolute a-holes to instance admins and admins to each other. I see increasingly ornate catastrophizing like in the screenshots linked above, and anyone who refutes them or points out it’s nonsense is labeled a shill, so no, I really don’t want to talk about it.
If and when I understand what they’re up to and how, I’ll take action, likely along with the rest of the instance admins. In the mean time, I’m not going to participate or add fuel to the hand-wringing hate machine that is emerging here.
@mastodonmigration I am not aware of any secret deals with Meta. As far as I can tell people are just making stuff up. There is little to comment on until Meta's platform launches.
It may be that the bond company didn't report their financials because they have insufficient collateral to secure a bond of this magnitude. In which case the bond is no good, Trump doesn't have a bond, and he is out of time.
Not only is Knight unlicensed in NY, it "hasn’t even been vetted by a voluntary state entity that would verify it meets minimum “eligibility standards” to prove financial stability."
And, get this! Knight doesn't even promise to "pay the money if the former president loses his $464 million bank fraud case on appeal. Instead, it says Trump will pay, negating the whole point of an insurance company guarantee..."
"If Trump fails to meet the Monday deadline for showing the fitness of the bond, the New York attorney general could begin enforcing the fraud ruling..."
So what is going on? Recently mastodon.social (m.s) has been the target of crypto spam attacks. Attackers have joined m.s and started to post many irrelevant crypto related posts. Moderators on m.s have tracked down these bad actors and isolated them, but some sneak through while the moderation effort tracks them down. It has been dealt with pretty swiftly.
@Gargron So the question remains: Should you move to a smaller instance? The answer is you are free to do whatever you want. Some people like smaller instances because of the greater sense of community or common interest. Some people like big instances because of the broader perspective they may afford. It's up to you.
If you are on mastodon.social and want a more intimate experience, open an account on a smaller server and give it a try. It's your social network.
So, lots of reports of abuse and bias on Mastodon today stemming from the Middle East conflict. Perhaps this heightened level of hostility derives from the fact this platform skews left, but these issues divide the left. It's kind of new for us. Whatever the cause, hate speech, antisemitism, islamophobia, racism and personal attacks are never called for and will probably get you blocked or banned. Let's commit to zero tolerance for this garbage. We're better than this. Be kind to each other.
@mastodonmigration I will be kind to whoever agrees that killing people is wrong.
What Israel is doing in Gaza, under Netanyahu, is genocide!
Silencing myself now is being complicit.
Israel government and Netanyahu are the ones to blame. Not Israeli citizens, not the Jewish people. Protesting against an ongoing genocide is not being anti-semitic nor pro-Hamas.
We need to speak UP and not down as you propose to save lives of people in @palestine
Notice is hereby given to #Meta Corp. by this account, and all signatories, that all data rights are reserved. No license is granted other than those limited rights as per the account's instance Privacy Policy (eg. https://mastodon.online/privacy-policy).
Specifically no authorization is given for: 1) Monetization in any way, 2) Profiling for targeted advertising or other purpose, 3) AI, LLM or algorithm training.
@mastodonmigration You do realize these pseudo legal sounding crap posts do absolutely nothing right? It's just like those old email forwards you'd get from your parents.
"Send this to 10 people or your dog will become a cat at the next full moon and eat your birthday cake"
Threads now has a Supplemental Privacy Policy (https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944) regarding "Third Party Services" like Mastodon. Should Threads interconnect with Mastodon via #ActivityPub, this addresses what they will do with our data.
Note that they will collect information from anyone "allowing Threads users to follow you or interact with your content". The information they collect will include your profile, your content, and your interactions.
This Supplemental Privacy Policy (https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944) also addresses what Threads will do with the information they collect. These uses include advertisements.
@mastodonmigration I thought I might re-share this for #Fediverse instance admins — in addition to #FediBlock-ing #Threads from federating with your server, here’s a list of iptables firewall commands to drop all inbound and outbound traffic to and from #Meta’s IP address ranges (including Threads). This should completely stop all interaction from Threads to your server! https://mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/110586556696261405
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So, let's get this straight. Elon Musk decided he had the authority to cause a strategic Ukrainian military offensive operation to fail. An attack presumably coordinated with the US. And Elon Musk shut down communications once the operation was already in motion resulting in a Ukrainian defeat. Ukraine is now in the position that military actions are subject to Elon Musk’s approval. Let that sink in.
"Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet...”
"As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes."
This whole federating with Threads thing has never made any sense and now we see it is very likely they have just been playing us the whole time. Let's stop falling for this nonsense and get back to building great open social media.
@mastodonmigration@tchambers@spreadmastodon I think this is fantastic! The “pick your server” as the first step is absolutely a barrier to entry. It’s the most common complaint from people for why they don’t use Mastodon. Getting rid of that is huge!
Finding it is possible to rely almost entirely on Mastodon for news during this dynamic time, and that it delivers a much more sober coherent blend of information.
Here's how...
Create a List for "News"
Click Lists on the right >>> Type "News" in the box >>> Click "Add list" >>>
Click "News" below >>> Click on little slider bars top right >>>Toggle "Hide these posts from home"
>>>> Edit: Added below from the replies a few more News and a large list of Media accounts.