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Does Threads show up as an instance I can block?
I think every instance should be able to federate with whomever they wish, I just don’t want to participate.
If you’re an instance admin, yes.
If you mean that you personally just don’t want, as a user, to see content from that instance, then no, but shortly. kbin has had the ability for users to block seeing content from particular instances for a while; lemmy has not, but I understand that it’s in the next release.
Yes, you can domain block threads.net just like any other mastodon/misskey/whatever server.
This metric seems kind of meaningless if it doesn’t account for the size of the user base
I keep on forgetting that “threads” (in lowercase) is frequently being used to refer to “Threads” the Facebook thing, and not separate sub-communities within the Fediverse.
Was getting all confused as to why Fediverse instances were internally blocking each other.
Y’all all need to learn capitalization, yo. Helps reduce confusion by turning certain things into the proper nouns that they actually are.
FOSS bros: we’re all about user choice!
also FOSS bros: no not like that
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nah dude, comparing social media to literal genocide is not the way to go.
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Is there a way to block these threads about threads?
There would be little point being federated if instances couldn’t choose how they set policies or moderate content. It doesn’t stop an instance being 8kun if it wants but it doesn’t mean the others have to accept that.
Brilliant, all the propaganda about “join us, the fediverse is like email” gone to shit. More like “it’s like email, but if you email ends with @hotmail.com we will block your messages”.
I agree with the sentiment, not with these actions, instead of giving meta users a way to break free, we built a wall between us and them, who have way more content, because we’re afraid of Zuck stealing our data, which is public and he already done.
Good.
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Been enjoying Lemmy, so I wanted to see how Threads is. “It’s just going to seem like another instance, right?”
It’s Facebook with another skin. The posts are pretty much all the same sort of posts memes take the piss out of. Literally feels just like Facebook… Going to stick to Lemmy, myself.Meta wants to kill the Fediverse from inside while it’s not a big rival. That’s the only reason Meta want’s to “become friend” to the Fediverse. The same that GAFAM has been doing for decades (if you can’t buy it, destroy it).
FYI the 41% of instances that block or limit Threads (from the source data which doesn’t have every instance), accounts for 24% of the user base of the fediverse.
Still too few
If you don’t like it, just move to an instance that defederates
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Just what I did.
Handy site to check your instances thread-blocking status.
What a fucking hateful choice of colours. Green for blocking and red for allowing communication. Really shows what kind of perspective the creator has.
Apparently this is a divisive topic, moreso than expected. Edited for clarity.
Huh? Green means it has been blocked and needs no further action. Red means it needs attention [if you’re on the side of defederating that is].
The point is that it’s portraying not blocking as an inherently negative thing, which isn’t universally agreed upon at all. Plenty of people would say that they don’t need any attention at all. It’s not presenting objective in a neutral way, but rather labeling a group as bad.
Of course, it’s probably fair to assume that the author has no intention of being neutral, but it’s still valid grounds to criticize it as a data visualization.
Thanks for the clarification, your second to last line says it all. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that many online lack critical thinking skills and/or don’t consider the source when browsing. Better to accommodate the lowest common denominator when possible…but to expect that from a biased, private site is asking a lot IMHO.
I don’t think I’d expect political neutrality from the admin of a website literally called “veganism” anyway.
You shouldn’t expect it from ANY site really.
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Everywhere else, red means stop and green means go. Here, the creator has chosen to reverse that to emphasize that they consider blocking to be good and allowing people to connect to be bad.
No attention is needed for the instances that are marked with red. They are federating.
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Yeah, the color scheme is the real clue there. It’s pretty subtle what their viewpoint is.
