Christina WarrenSo the new Instagram text thing is reported to have ActivityPub support and instead of being happy at all the new labor that could potentially be coming to the standard, Mastodon people are now actively encouraging instances to not federate with any of that stuff. K.
Look, instance admins can block whatever they want for any reason they want. It hurts your users but do you. And I'm not trying to argue that Facebook isn't a fucked up company. But actively working to discourage extremely skilled participants (and love them for hate them, FB engineers are VERY good) from contributing or associating with your open source protocol or community is just peak stupidity for people who claim in the same breath to want to remake and reset the social web.
Charlie Fish@film_girl My biggest problem with this is a lot of admins are de-federating servers without providing evidence of a legitimate rule that the server violated. Every admin should define consistent rules for their server, and enforce those rules (and only those rules).
The lack of transparency and lack of following their own stated rules, is the disappointing part.
yukoff@fishcharlie @film_girl We've seen this for multiple Ukrainian instances with no clear explanation. If I recall correctly, for most of them formal reason was “email abuse” or something like that
ZEN :upa: (@[email protected])
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