I still haven't made up my mind about blocking Meta's #Threads, codenamed #Project92 or #P92, supposedly supporting #ActivityPub, should it actually launch. As far as I can see, it's basically "keeping the evil surveillance corp. out" vs "avoiding nerdy self-marginalization".
Both are fair points. I guess, it depends. But on what? For me, the key point is if Threads (or whatever its name) supports easy migration (as Mastodon does). If that's the case, I would prefer not to block it, as it could be an offramp from the walled garden. If this feature is omitted, then I would be much more open to blocking.
But in the end, this should not be a decision by the admins, but a collective one by the users of the instance. #fedipact#Project92
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The issue is more complex than just 'surveillance' (which they don't need to join the fediverse to do). The fear is that they'll do basically what google and big providers did to email, which is now much more impractical to self host, by swamping out with sheer volume everyone else and being the big voice that ends up dictating the evolution of the fediverse to its own detriment, opportunistically grabbing more users and then cutting off support for little servers. There's a rumor circulating that they want to PAY big servers to federate with them, and demand that content meet their guidelines, which could obviously fuck over people as it would create a vicious cycle of dependency as big servers would become incentivized to do whatever they want in order to keep the cash flow going - you could no longer trust them, and I guarantee you big social companies will be tempted to start using advertisement bots and artificial upvotes on influencers and toxic controversy to increase clicks and engagement.
I dunno about you, but I don't want ads or upvote-bots in my fediverse or big servers becoming beholden to a for-profit corporation for money. We've seen where that story goes - worse and worse.
If they actually do pay big servers, I am all in favor of defederating immediately as that is a huge red flag to me. But so far it is just a rumor. If they behave well (which would mean not tolerating Neo-Nazis, which, y'know, twitter does) I could be okay with them getting a probationary entry.
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