Aurynn ShawJul 4, 2023

Finding I pretty strongly agree with this post

https://ianbetteridge.com/2023/06/21/meta-and-mastodon-whats-really-on-peoples-minds/

Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?

​ There has been a lot of chatter about the decision of some instances on Mastodon to pre-emptively block Meta’s purported new ActivityPub-compatible service: Dare Obasanjo: It’s a weird own …

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Show threadDillon PentzJul 4, 2023

@aurynn Yeah, this is a very sensible take.

I definitely was in the "wait and see" camp, but even then that was always with an incredibly heavy amount of skepticism and concern, and I think I might be coming around to just nuking it from the start.

Show threadAurynn Shaw

@dillon "wait-and-see" just seems like a good way to hurt communities and be reactive to that hurt, and question whether it's "enough" hurt to justify anything.

Instead of just saying "any hurt is too much".

Jul 4, 2023 at 11:01pmWeb
Show threadDillon PentzJul 4, 2023

@aurynn Yeah, and even when I was more thinking along those lines, it was with the idea that any misstep at all would forfeit any kind of federation.

I think my current position has changed to not federating, and reassessing in the future only if they have managed to avoid hurt or missteps (doubtful)

Show threadAurynn ShawJul 4, 2023
@dillon We can always choose to federate later 🙂