If @mastodon becomes thread-like, I'll leave social network forever. I'm done with meta wanting to control everything, chiefly the freedom of speech in a network used to communicate. I mean, really? The upsidedown World.
Here’s a question, forgive my ignorance. Is there a way to determine ownership of an instance beyond the name of the user account that owns it?
What if meta used their massive amounts of data storage to flood the fediverse with meta-owned instances, making it difficult or impossible to determine what they control and what they do not?
This will be an ongoing struggle until capitalism is ended. Westerners think China has a firewall to keep The Truth out, but mostly it’s to keep foreign capitalists out.
There are better arguments for not federating with Meta’s Threads, some of which can be found in !fediverse. Firstly, Threads isn’t going to be able to restrict speech on other instances, at least not in any direct fashion. And secondly and more importantly, an argument for “freedom of speech” without qualifications is either naive or disingenuous: Paradox of tolerance
Oh, it is good news. I wanted a source, so I can embrace in the excitement. I want Meta to fail, and anything that contributes towards it is great in my book. I just want to know it’s actually happening and see it in the data!
I’ll wait for you to read it again. You said there’s less users than that uses Mastodon and that’s not even true. You clearly skimmed passed that part, then commented in odd fashion. When it’s too that failed as you provided false information. Even if you don’t use the article I provided find a recent source that’s not from the summer. Even then at its lowest the numbers was still higher than Mastodon which has 1.6 m MAU
You can’t block Threads users or comments with the Lemmy instance block function, which basically makes the lemmy instance block function practically useless.
Is it possible that this happens because your instance has already defederated from threads?
My instance (mander.xyz) has defederated from them and I too can’t block threads. (Fun fact: mander has only defederated from 2 instances, threads.net and burggit.moe)
I think you misunderstand: lemmy’s new instance blocking feature that users can use only blocks posts from an instance, not users or their comments from that instance, which is what most people wanted the feature to do: block the toxic jerks from any particular instance along with their posts, comments, etc the same way defederation would. By only blocking their posts but allowing their comments, etc. to come through, the new feature is mostly useless, as it still requires users to be blocked individually.
Since Threads is an instance that has, rather than thousands or tens of thousands of users like a typical lemmy instance, but tens of millions, this makes things even more daunting for users of instances which don’t defederate from Threads.
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