There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.
There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.
if you believe meta is going to act in the best interest of the fediverse, and not try to fuck it over, then please kindly remove your head from your ass.
I believe they may try, but I think the approach Mastodon is taking isn’t necessarily a warm embrace. They seem to be handling this with skepticism and I have read that they have plans to Defederate if Meta tries to exploit Activity Pub in any way.
Meta will act in Meta’s best interest. We don’t know yet whether that will be be beneficial or damaging to the Fediverse. It could be beneficial in terms of user numbers and general adoption. If they are arses then sure - defederate
lol, i can say the same back to you, if you think that instances de-federating from meta, de-federating from instances who haven’t de-federated from meta, dividing up content and users from eachother, won’t cause the fediverse to self implode, then you need to open your eyes.
All of this started due to people’s mindset of “eww facebook bad”, the creator of mastodon doesn’t think its an issue and is optimistic of the change, yet people still are refusing to change their mindset, i even saw someone bring up conspiracy that the mastodon founder got bribed by meta… which is absolutely ridiculous.
If things continue as is, with mass de-federation, you are going to kill the fediverse without realising. If you dislike meta, thats understandable, just de-federate client side, but if an instance owner makes that choice for all users, that would be censorship, something the fediverse aims to avoid. We all shit on meta/twitter/other large corps for censoring content, but when instance owner’s do it, its fine? De-federating for ideological reasons like this goes against the principles of federation.