Andrew Davies
Ars TechnicaFear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon
Meta promised to make Threads compatible with W3C open standard for social media.
Democracy Dies in Dumbass@arstechnica I defederated threads.net before it actually launched...
Oceanotter 
@arstechnica none of the instances that matter are federating this crap.
toxtethogrady@arstechnica Let's watch to see if this boosts Mastodon's user count. And makes #Threads usable on a standard desktop PC...
tarneo@arstechnica They actually managed to get defederated before even being federated...
stephen m 🍞🌹🇵🇸@arstechnica I am of the opinion that we should embrace this, I honestly look forward to connecting with people who decided to take the threads path. I dont want us to also be walled off, the only difference is that we could make it democratically instead of top down decisions, I respect that but think what if we blocked all gmail email accounts...?
AdeptVeritatisGmail blocks all self-hosted email servers for ages. It is not us, who are responsible for such nonsense.
@AdeptVeritatis @arstechnica Yes, that is true, it eventually gets resolved. But what I am saying is we should not do the same thing back. Which is what I have been hearing on here from time to time.
It is not the same. The power is on different sides.
Why does it sound like "reverse racism" to me?
Primetime@arstechnica Does anybody know, how one can find out if their instance is federated with Threads or not?
outadoc 
@Primetime @arstechnica You will know once Threads actually supports ActivityPub. For now, the people maintaining Mastodon (and mastodon.social, your instance) have released a statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
AlexsandraSmart@Primetime @arstechnica
On my server's website, they have an 'about' page. On there they have a section that drops down saying 'Moderated Servers' that lists all the servers that are limited or suspended.
On my server's website, they have an 'about' page. On there they have a section that drops down saying 'Moderated Servers' that lists all the servers that are limited or suspended.
Calum@Primetime @arstechnica There's a list of moderated servers on the About page of your server instance, which in your case is https://mastodon.social/about.
Gourd@arstechnica Doesn't mention stuff like the genocides Facebook has been involved with as a reason nobody would want to associate with them who has standards. -_-
James Pain@arstechnica A beautiful response to Meta engineer in the W3C mail list was "The company you work for does disgusting things among others. It harms relationships and isolates people. It builds walls and lures people into them. When that doesn't suffice, brutal peer pressure does … That said, welcome to the list, Ben."
Orca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️⚧️@arstechnica
One reason:
It's the fu*king Facebook/Meta
One reason:
It's the fu*king Facebook/Meta
Vaggumon@arstechnica Zuckerberg made a diarrhea sandwich, and musk is only mad about it because he didn't get to add extra dookie sauce.
Artair Geal 
@arstechnica It's surreal to me how the goal is always to grow, grow, grow at any cost. "Growth" is not an indicator of quality or integrity. Meta lacks both those things. It's like arguing that allowing 10,000 soldiers to ransack your village will be good because of the population influx.
Don't let corporate interests ruin the good thing we've got here.
Bleyddyn@arstechnica "That includes deciding how easily users can migrate their accounts and networks to other services, and whether to provide support such as tools that redirect followers to a user’s new home."
I find it hard to believe anyone could write that about Meta with a straight face.