Eugen RochkoMy wife is looking forward to deleting her Instagram account once she can connect with the same folks from her Mastodon account. Being able to remain in touch with over 100M people who still use Meta products out of the comfort of an ad-free, privacy-friendly platform like Mastodon is a game changer.
I hope that an organization as massive as Meta adopting #ActivityPub will send a signal that pushes Tumblr and other platforms that have been considering it over the edge in doing the same. Perhaps even Bluesky would consider replacing or at least supplementing their custom protocol with the @w3c standard for interoperability.
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Emelia 👸🏻@fishcharlie opt-in reports? Where'd you hear this one? (It's news to me)
@fishcharlie that isn't about reports, that's about users being opt-in to federate or not, which seems fair for a large instance where people may not understand what federating means and will need to be taught about it.
Also, ActivityPub doesn't mandate that all users must federate, nor all content must federate.
@thisismissem You're right. I didn't communicate very well in my original post. Just edited to make it more clear. (I hadn't actually viewed @mosseri's post myself before I took that screenshot to reply, which is why I said "reports”).
@fishcharlie @mosseri ah, okay! Because, yeah, "reports" made it sound like you thought they could opt out of moderation applying to them, which would be pretty inconceivable.
Also, this opens the door to Meta being able to defederate specific accounts which cause trouble on the fediverse, which arguably seems like it could be a wise move on their part.
Jon (now at neuromatch.social)@thisismissem Yeah as everybody knows I'm not a fan of Meta but from a privacy and safety perspective, opting in to federation is a very good move on their part and I hope other fediverse platforms will emulate it. Of course it's also very much in Meta's self-interest, they're not doing it that way out of the goodness of their hearts, but it's still a good choice.
@jdp23 I think the fediverse variant of that will be local-only posts?
@thisismissem yes (and making local-only posts the default). but we all know a certain someone doesn't like local-only posts so I hoped that if I framed it in terms of trying to match something Meta was doing right it might get a different response ... but no 😂 😂 😂 https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111591877818794325