I’m right in the middle of the move so I don’t have time to write anything at length on the whole “mastodon.social rolling out the red carpet for Threads/Instagram/Meta/Zuckerberg” thing.
In a nutshell:
The only leverage the fediverse has over a trillion-dollar corporation is social legitimacy.
That is exactly what the flagship instance is providing to Meta.
It matters less whether your tiny/personal instance blocks them; given their size, you’re effectively blocking yourself.
The fact we have a flagship instance and that mastodon.social didn’t close signups ages ago is a huge part of the problem. They could have set a social precedent (large instances are a no-no) – they didn’t.
When Threads federates, it will become the flagship instance.
Eugen is basically handing the crown to Mark.
The fact there is a crown to start with is a shortcoming of the federated model with instances that can scale indefinitely. (How else could things be done? See #SmallWeb)
Ahhhhh look what just arrived in the mail! Finally! 😍 No misprints, nothing upside down, everything seems in tact. 💀 So far it's looking like I got a good batch! 😅
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is blocking randomly some requests between activity pub servers ❌
the best way to deal with non solicited content is human moderation, little instance, few people, human scale... #smallWeb made of lots of little instances without any need of a big centralized proxy... 🧠
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)
Not a good look for Mastodon - what can be done to automate the removal of CSAM?