Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net"

If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net".

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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (95 children)

Yeah, close that protocol! Build the walls around our garden higher! No need to wait for them to actually do something worth defederating over, we just don't like them!

This is silly. A major social media network is trying to join the Fediverse and everyone's keen on stopping it. If Meta does something dirty or damaging, sure, defederate them then. But I was kind of hoping that open protocols would flourish, not just end up as another bunch of balkanized forums and Reddit-likes.

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd be closer to agreeing with you if XMPP didn't completely invalidate your point. They did it there and they'll do it here.

[–] kpw@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

XMPP works great, you just have to use it. It doesn't invalidate anything.

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Theres a reason nobody uses it anymore. Google extended the crap out of it, effectively took over the protocol and then retired it. It bears the same echoes of what's happening here.

[–] kpw@kbin.social -1 points 10 months ago

This didn't happen. In fact Google was the one who fell behind development when the protocol moved on and deprecated unencrypted connections for example. People just don't make it a priority to use XMPP instead of the walled gardens they are using now.

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