@treyhunner Somebody writing such code I would first complement them for their IQ of 200 and then give them a good talking to: don't pull the hairs of your playmate. #python
@keithwilson
This statement looks misleading to me.
For example, the first half of the article: "[...] you would have to leave that social network and lose your existing connections. It doesn't have to be this way!". Sounds like they invented that idea, as if #mastodon / #activitypub didn't exist.
Or: "On Bluesky, your experience is based on what feeds and accounts you follow, and you can always participate in the global conversation [...]". That's the same for #mastodon.
The small minority of #fediverse users on servers that don't want to #federate with #threads (fedipact/suspend/block) has slightly shrunken further from 11.17% to 11.11%.
Yes, and if the trend continues, in 3 years you will be the #fediverse original #mastodon, everything else will be conquered territory. But they still have time to confront it and federate with you again.
Consider this: If a large number of Mastodon/Fediverse instances block Threads.net not out of ideological 'purity’ (never a good test anyway) but rather out of true and obvious poor moderation, spam, sources of harassment, etc. Perhaps Threads joining the Fediverse will improve Threads through force of de-Federation?
There have been plenty of keystrokes committed to how powerful Threads is... but don't discount our power.
so, I learned that #threads can not only get your posts, even if you blocked them (via different servers that didn't and that store your posts cus people there may follow you or interact with you), they can also monetize those posts by showing ads next to them. Thus making money off of you. Put that together with all the genocidal and fascist and other harmful activity. It makes me think that the #enshittification of the #fedi has begun. The cycles seem to move faster and faster. I love it here and I've had many elightening convos and beautiful connections. Today I read that 41% of servers have blocked threads. Maybe there is still hope.
Esp. the neurodivergent community on here is the best I've ever experienced. @actuallyautistic
The whole #threads fiasco is a no-win situation for #mastodon, IMHO.
If a majority of instances #defederate with #threads, then #meta and zuck can claim mastodon is hostile and move on to the #extend part of "embrace-extend-extinguish" and create proprietary features.
If a majority of instances #federate and accept threads, Meta and Zuck will embrace it but continue to #extend and eventually take defacto control of the #ActivityPub protocol.
Well, interestingly #microsoft is actively embracing #linux (see WSL, #azure), #edge is based on #chromium, dot.net is not using the #java standard, #microsoft messenger is dead, and #pop3, #imap and #smtp are one of the most widely used open #internet standards. Not exactly a success story for EEE.
And if people prefer #threads or #twitter over #mastodon, then no wall around the #mastodon garden will help. I just don't see how EEE plays a role here.
What you call "miracle" is simply that EEE is not a thing here. You use a lot of loaded but vague language like "bad actor" and "may just be a start" and fantasies of how things may play out in your view, but I still don't see how this matches reality.
Blaming the failure of an #opensource project on an open standard and thinking that a walled garden would have saved it is naive in my opinion and also harms the open source community because it avoids addressing the real reasons discuss and draw conclusions from it.
The discourse in the last few days regarding #Meta and #Threads gives the impression that the entire Fediverse is already blocking Threads. I wanted to take a look at the numbers and they speak a different language. The data source for my calculation is https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2.
Measured by user count, 76 % of all users are federated with Threads. Remaining instances with 24 % of users either block Threads or are limited (e.g. infosec.exchange).
Those of you caught up debating the technical minutiae of federating with Threads are missing the forest for the trees.
This is about one thing: Affording social capital to/normalising/legitimising Meta/Facebook/surveillance capitalism (and thereby delegitimising those who oppose them).
Hey, if the author of Mastodon thinks Meta/Facebook/Instagram/surveillance capitalism is socially acceptable there must be something wrong with you if you don’t.