Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you’re a server admin, please defederate Meta’s domain “threads.net

If you don’t run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate “threads.net”.

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    11 months ago

    But why do YOU get to choose for everyone else?

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      11 months ago

      Choose what? If you want to find an instance unscrupulous enough to federate with that company then go for it. Who is stopping you?

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        11 months ago

        People like OP here, begging admin to block it?

        Like are you for real? He’s literally asking them to take my choice away.

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          11 months ago

          It is always the admins’ choice, that has never been any different. You are free to choose which instance you are part of.

          This petition changes nothing about that.

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            11 months ago

            “We need to defederate from them” is not a petition…

            Also, you could just choose not to subscribe to them, go to a place where they are defederated, or even just block them yourself with the right apps.

            That’s a whole lot of choice for you in a platform based around decentralization and user choice.

            But on the flip side if you just make everyone defederate them, then you’re removing user choice completely just based on your personal feelings on the matter.

            That doesn’t seem fair to me just because you personally hate something that I don’t.

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              11 months ago

              We’re not making anyone do anything. This is a pledge for admins to volunteer for, to send a message that this instance won’t be welcome. There are going to be pariah instances, that’s the nature of federation. If you can’t find an instance to follow that federates with them, then that just means the thing you want is deeply, deeply unpopular.

              If you care enough, you could join their instance. You could start your own instance and federate with them. Go for it. If and when your own instance becomes a pariah I’m sure you’ll whine about people taking away your freedom to be an asshole at them online, because nobody can make you learn a lessom you’re clearly set on not learning.

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                11 months ago

                If you can’t find an instance to follow that federates with them, then that just means the thing you want is deeply, deeply unpopular.

                MFer how you expect me to find any if you keep going around begging them to wholesale block access.

                Just don’t subscribe to it, or block it yourself! You don’t get to decide for everyone else what content they can access here

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                  11 months ago

                  Your complete unresponsiveness to anything I’ve said leads me to ask a very simple and basic question: are you actually curious to understand my answer to your question?

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                    11 months ago

                    Yeah bro I’m super curious why you get to decide for all of us what content we can see here. Please answer that I guess?