A community index of servers added a new rule recently, that requires every participant to defederate from Threads. Some admins are unhappy.
Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
the one reason I joined the instance Lemm.ee was because its mission was to avoid defederating and be the widest firehose nozzle of lemmy content available.
even i would prefer for lemm.ee to defederate threads.
Instance admins: Let's give them a chance guyyyyss!!
Those of you who think the problem is data scraping or whatever are totally missing the point. All profit-motivated social media platforms engage in promoting hate content for engagement, and in doing so have deadly real world consequences. The Fediverse is one of the few online spaces where people can just be themselves naturally without being manipulated by algorithms. Given their history, there's no reason to assume Threads won't be any better about handling their own community, and anything that happens with them will affect the rest of us.
Maybe I'm naive but I kinda don't get it. People talk about defederating as if...what, all Meta IP addresses will be magically blocked from scraping your content? Any script kiddie can harvest Lemmy/Mastodon/whatever content.
Has Meta shown itself to be a bad actor? Yes. Should my email provider block all emails from Meta? Well...that's a bit much I think? If Facebook email still existed, should my email provider block that?
My point is yes, Meta bad, but all Thread users also bad? I thought --- and apparently I'm very wrong here --- that the Federation paradigm was kinda like email. And the only email I want blocked is a domain where every single user is malicious, not a domain run by a malicious entity which has normal people as users, who aren't necessarily very tech literate.
I don't actually care, but I just find it a little confusing tbh.
The entire point of the Fedi-verse is so that one person or small group of people can't ruin the entire platform for everyone else. Anyone who tells you how to moderate your content, backed up by a threat can screw off.
I'm kinda against defederation or blocking anything at an instance level, unless the instance causes straight up legal issues or is literally created for the sole purpose of harassment
Blocking shitty instances is great. Users should have more ability to include the instances they want to hang out with, in their own experience, but I'll almost never object to a "fuck Nazis" policy.
Blocking other instances that don't block shitty-enough instances makes sense. Hexbear is a chan board for tankies, but then .ml is only "more serious" by having mods snip and tut at anyone besides those tankies. If there's any actual Nazi instances, I don't wanna know, and I don't wanna see anybody that hangs out with them.
Blocking instances based on M'Zuck's embrace-extend-extinguish plans, yeah okay sure? That's predicting existential problems for federation as a concept.
But a list of instances... not even mentioning them... by association? That feels kinda skeezy.
I guess if it's specifically a "where you should sign up" list, versus a "here's all the servers that aren't fucking Nazis," then... okay. But if this is a solution, maybe we have deeper problems.
Every time something like this gets posted, there are always Lemmy users crying to defederate their Lemmy instances.
But remember, the current concern is with Mastodon, NOT Lemmy. Lemmy can’t actually view the post types that Masto and Threads make. Wendy’s can post all the Threads ads they want - we’re not going to see them here. We can’t. That hasn’t been built.
Try it. Go view someone’s Mastodon account in Lemmy. You don’t see their posts.
Seems like a way of bullying community leaders into running their instances how Fedi Garden feels is appropriate. Which is intrinsically against the nature of the Fediverse, in that instances are meant to have their own autonomy.
Fedi Garden's position in this space is to be a directory, not a dictator. This feels like an overstep.