Les OrchardJun 19, 2023

Gruber says: "...the idea that administrators of Mastodon/Fediverse instances should pledge to preemptively block Facebook’s imminent Twitter-like ActivityPub service (purportedly named Threads) strikes me as petty and deliberately insular. ... to me this feels like convicting Facebook of a pre-crime."

To me, this take feels obtuse to the point of intention - or at least self-parody. Smells a bit like the whole "paradox of tolerance" folks like to shop around in debates.

Surely you can't possibly be unaware that Meta (née Facebook) already has a rich history of acting badly, that many folks switched to alternatives like Mastodon as a response to that, and many now express wariness & outright revulsion to that same bad actor wandering into a new party?

My dear sweet summer child, don't be a doofus.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open

Not That Kind of ‘Open’

Link to: https://fedipact.online/

Daring Fireball
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@lmorchard @emmah People have already forgotten about the genocide
Jun 19, 2023 at 11:47pmWeb
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@CoolerPseudonym @lmorchard people just want influencers flashing their cleavage.
Show threadBen K-CJun 20, 2023
@CoolerPseudonym @lmorchard @emmah And the psych studies they’ve conducted while claiming that the terms of use count as informed consent, and the dictators whose social media presences they’ve helped maintain, and the fact that ol’ Zucky boy literally wants to be a modern day Roman emperor.