Blunt reminder: Meta is a for-profit entity that is beholden to its shareholders. It makes money by aggregating data and profiting off of it by selling advertisements. Their involvement in the fediverse is informed by that, and that alone. #threads
@yunchtime@enron I cannot agree more. My (hopefully false) negative projection is that it'll make mastodon a horrible experience. I'm aware that anyone can scrape the content at any time, and "Meta"surely already does; but I wish to stay away from this as far as possible.
I don't really want to give up mastodon, as a user I can't really block threads as it's whole as far as I'm aware. It's up to the server admins.
@waldschnecke@yunchtime as a user, you can totally block threads if you want to, or any other domain for that matter.
On a profile for any user, hit the three dots overflow menu next to their name. In the dropdown, the last item should be “block domain” - just search for threads.net, pick a profile for someone on that instance, and block away.
That’s part of why federated socials are better - you don’t even need to fully rely on your admin to get the kind of control that you want.
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