It shouldn’t be an issue that some admins are taking a strong, pre-emptive stance to #BlockMeta whilst others play a waiting game.
The great thing about the Fediverse is that we can decide to move and join an instance that aligns with our own position and values. We should celebrate this flexibility.
The one thing that will serve #Meta’s interest is if we
instead divided ourselves to wage a destructive #Fediverse war of words over its plans.
@stefanf28@GrahamDowns but this hypotetic migration will be possible? As good as I know migration is not part of ActivityPub, but an own development of the Mastodon software. Why should Meta implement it in the own software?
@petergleick hopefully democratic countries learn somethink about the last events and constraint the use of contractors yo very specific tasks. And combat should not be one of them.
@empiricism@tfardet@louis I thin Meta is more intelligent... if they do something like that no one would accept and that would be contraproductive for their goals, whateber they are.
And the software of Mastodon is just a sofware which supports ActivityPub, like Lemmy, Calkey, Kbin and a lot others. Eben I don't think that Meta will open Mastodon instances, they will use their own software for it.
I think instance admins should leave it to their users to block #Meta (or not). All the tooling is already there; it's very easy for a user to block an entire domain.
@darius@null
Just a question, maybe you can help me to understand it. After I read your post, I search for answers in the documentation of Mastodon, and I found that as a user, I can block other users or a domain, but with different results https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#block
That means, when I block a user, I don't get her/his data and she/he doesn't get my data.
But if I block a domain, that means that I silence it, I don't see the data and that from the blocked domain my data is accessible, is it right? That mean, that if as a user I block the instances of Meta, that wouldn't prevent Meta to access my data.
Have I understood well?
The only possibility to block effectively Meta in Mastodon is if the administrator defederates Meta?
Thanks a lot!!
I agree with this take on proposals to block #Meta's rumoured #ActivityPub-based service. We should encourage adoption of this defederated approach, even if there is a risk that Meta will try #enshittify it.
@paul Hi Paul, I have another question related to it. In my case, more than defeferate the option will be just to delete my acounts in the Fediverse. I just need a little time until next werk to organize the way out of kbin, since I have a couple of responsabilities there.
I have already altetnative places, but I was curious about Nostr. I have seen your account there and I wanted to know about your opinion about it, comminities that use it, etc.
@paul I am in the opposite position. I afraid the consequences of the integration of data graphs (something in which I have experience). After the federation, it will be possible during data retrieval integrate networks of people present in both platforms, match accounts, even with different names but which belongs to the same person (it is one of my professional activities, but I do only with data of dead people). That means, it gives possibilities to enrich a lot the knowledge about each individual.