Yeah, this is why I say that @potus forced the hand of the Fediverse.
Like it or not, most Americans want to see President Biden’s messages. I therefore suspect that many people will migrate to servers where they can follow him.
I’m not saying certain servers are wrong for de-federating Threads. But just because a server enacts a policy doesn’t mean that end users agree with it. Both figuratively and literally, people have a right to vote in the matter.
If they haven’t already, they will vote with their feet.
If an instance has defederated from threads.net, it's users can't see @ potus@threads.net anymore? Really?
I thought there was a work-around.
The reason I'm saying this:
About a year ago, some of us looked into the practices of tankies on some servers. As a side note, I learned that there are "really bad" parts of the #Fediverse that most users don't want to do anything about, which is why mist admins deferated their instances from them (sort of like a "#FediDarknet..."
...HOWEVER knowing the precisely address/root/whatever, I don't really really the details anymore, it was possible to access these "#FediDarkweb" handle without much ado.
@HistoPol It goes both ways. If you’re circumventing the Fediblock by mirroring @potus on another server, there’s no moral high ground when Threads mirrors an account from a server that Fediblocks them.
And of course, that probably will happen. However, many people want to de-federate Threads because they believe this will prevent Threads from accessing their public feed. And that’s just plain wrong.
Either way, I doubt the servers de-federating Threads will mirror his account on their servers because what these servers want, more than anything, is moral high ground.
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Well, moral high ground is something important.
As my instance, mastodon.social, is pursuing a different strategy, methinks that @Gargron would be the perfect sponsor for all celeb accounts on #threads to set up #MirrorAccounts.
Apart from boosting traffic on the flagship instance, it would be an infrastructure service for the whole #Fediverse, as all others could just follow this (mirrored) account.
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