For a Universal Declaration on Fediverse Rights, or: At the Core of the Threads-Debate lies a deeper problem: how can the Fediverse grow without loosing its soul in the process?
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To Federate or not to Federate: is this the Fediverse’s Don’t be Evil-Moment or its own Liberation through transfiguration? And why is the current political Left in wide parts unable to answer this…
  • Outsider9042@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    It might have been fake, but weren’t there already reports of Meta blocking links/tags in relation to pixelfed?

    If it’s true, they’ve already proven to be a bad faith actor. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re already scraping data from every other instance that federates with them.

    At the end of the day, one side will be right. My moneys on the anti-threads side.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I don’t like the “they haven’t done anything bad yet” argument for staying federated, since there are much better reasons for not doing so. They either have already, and we aren’t talking about it yet (ex. downranking fediverse content, those closed door meetings with admins), or they are going to once they need to extract a profit.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re already scraping data from every other instance that federates with them.

      I would be surprised if they aren’t already, and they’re likely scraping data from the defederated instances as well.

      I think microblog instances should stay federated because that’s the best way to fight against threads. (longer discussion here: https://lemmy.ca/post/11771031)