Fedi.Tips 🎄 (@feditips@mstdn.social)
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1. Meta/Facebook has a horrific track record on human rights: - https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence - https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview 2. Meta/Facebook is trying to join the Fediverse. We need to defederate them. 3. If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net" (here's how on Mastodon https://fedi.tips/how-to-defederate-fediblock-a-server-on-mastodon/) 4. If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net". Your admin is listed on your server website's About page.

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”.

  • arquebus_x
    -28•7 months ago

    If Kbin defederates from Threads, I’ll just leave Kbin, and stay with Threads. Defederating over vibes is not how the fediverse is supposed to operate. And for everyone advocating for this dumb idea, I’m just using this thread as a honey pot.

    • squiblet
      35•7 months ago

      I’m pretty clear that meta has more problems than “vibes”.

    • @1984English
      23•7 months ago

      Big tech is a cancer on the internet. It makes sense to avoid it.

    • Alto
      19•7 months ago

      No, the entire point is that you’re free to go to whatever instance you want and/or host your own with your own rules. You’re more than welcome to go to one that doesn’t defederate, just as every instance owner/admins are free to defederate. It’s not how “the fediverse is supposed to operate” because a standard for how the fediverse is supposed to operate doesn’t exist.

    • sour
      18•7 months ago

      fediverse isn’t supposed to have most users concentrated in one instance also

    • Lee DunaEnglish
      15•7 months ago

      Once they can interact with your account, they can pull your data into their server and analyzing it to deliver ads campaign.

      • KinNectar
        4•7 months ago

        They can already do this by hosting a small instance and going unnoticed.

        • @narp@feddit.deEnglish
          7•7 months ago

          They can get the data, but they need the federation so people see their content/advertisement.

          • Lee DunaEnglish
            5•7 months ago

            And whenever an account from Threads upvote/ downvote or reply to your comments/posts or vice versa, Meta will analyze that and they can sell ads based on your political leanings, gender, geo-location, hobbies, marital status etc.

            That’s the options from what I saw from fb ads dashboard years ago. If you’re from US, that options are broader and more detailed.

      • xigoiEnglish
        1•7 months ago

        How would they get the data? Federation doesn’t mean that they will get full access to your account.