Andrea Grandi 🦕Jul 6, 2023

I think defederating Threads is a huge missed opportunity for Mastodon to grow.

Imagine interacting with their users and letting them know that: you scroll posts without ads, your timeline is in chronological order, your client doesn’t spy on you, you only see what you want and no other content is pushed to your timeline, etc…

if I was a Threads users, I would move to Mastodon as soon as I find out 🙂

Show threadGlockenspielJul 6, 2023

@andreagrandi That's fine and dandy until Meta does the inevitable and creates a walled garden of trusted communities and defederates from all else, no?

Meta has zero financial nor cultural motive to embrace the Fediverse as we understand it other than extinguish it. This is why they are linking your Threads account to Instagram and requiring that you delete Instagram in order to delete your Threads account. And they still are trying to sell us on the idea that their accounts are "portable?"

Show threadnik0 
@glockenspiel @andreagrandi What's the point of activitypub then if they're going to defederate themselves. Highly illogical and counter to their own intrests
Jul 6, 2023 at 3:26pmWeb
Show threadMinameH❇️Jul 6, 2023
@ashiisbest @glockenspiel @andreagrandi The problem is that companies, authority systems, etc. use the freedom we still have to take your freedom away. So there are situations where you have to limit coomplete freedom to save it overall...
Show threadnik0 Jul 6, 2023
@Miname @glockenspiel @andreagrandi Yeah that still doesn't answer my question. Why defederate from the very same people you want to take and restrict their rights away? I mean I get the plan but I'd have to see first be implemented before I say anything in regards to it
Show threadDon Hawkins - W7DAHJul 7, 2023

@ashiisbest @Miname @glockenspiel @andreagrandi

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Show threadDon Hawkins - W7DAHJul 7, 2023

@ashiisbest @glockenspiel @andreagrandi

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.