Steve Troughton-SmithThreads may just be the bridge to corporations, celebrities, media, customer support et al that Mastodon may never pick up on its own. Entire communities that just have no interest in moving here. As long as it /remains/ open/interoperable, that's a good thing. Meta is free to do whatever it likes over there that would never fly here, but may be *necessary* to build a well-rounded service of the like that can fully replace what came before. Real content, not just bots that repost from elsewhere
Chris Clarke@stroughtonsmith unfortunately it seems enough instances are taking an incredibly hard line that we won’t get a chance to see. The line appears to be your instance will either defederate Threads or it won’t be part of the fediverse. It’s too bad, because that seems the opposite of the whole choice thing I see thrown around here. It’s hardcore GNU attitude all over again.
Wilfried Klaebe@checlarke @stroughtonsmith OTOH, Meta is proven evil - why should anyone *not* try to block their attempts at Embrace Extend Extinguish?
@wonka @stroughtonsmith you’re free to ignore, and even block their server yourself. If activitypub is so brittle that a major player adopting it can extinguish the protocol, it’s probably not worth using anyway. But I’ll tell you what’s not reasonable - putting together a pact that requires admins to not only block Threads, but also to block instances that don’t block Threads. Might as well just say they you want individual bulletin boards.