The author complaining about Threads defederation from spinster was a pretty big red flag. It’s on every mainstream mastodon blocklist I’ve seen and it’s obvious he knows why. Really leaned into that “how can they discriminate against women!?” dog whistle that TERFs love to use.
Edit: Oh, it turns out he’s married to the person who runs that server. He’s also worked with Gab, used some of their code for his soapbox, and seems to have been involved with Trump’s truth social. No wonder his feelings are hurt.
‘omg Meta’s blocking nazi instances!’
- Gleason is a transphobic idiot.
- poast and spinster are blocked by everyone for hate speech.
Funny, there was a thread a few days back where people were raging about Meta being able to “harvest” the data they were posting in public on the Fediverse, and one of the ways people were insisting that Meta could be stopped was with “authorized fetch.” That’s exactly what Meta is apparently using in this case to block those servers, and which has been trivially worked around.
Public data is public, any attempt to make it conditionally public is just going down the DRM dead-end.
The problems I’ve seen mentioned regarding Threads have less to do with harvesting data and more to do with EEE
The problems have to do with people not liking Meta. I’m getting an increasingly strong feeling that the goalposts shall be placed wherever they are needed.
Which I suppose explains the tonal whiplash of going from people raging that not enough people were defederating from Meta to raging that Meta is defederating from the usual suspects in less time than it took to get through the Christmas leftovers.
Not that I particularly like Meta. All social media was a mistake, if you ask me. But still.
I thought it was because of the troubled history of these big corporations either destroying or exploiting every project, app, or platform they get their claws into.
But you’re telling me that people just randomly dislike Meta for no reason, so I guess you must be right that they have no good reason to do so /s
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But seriously, how much are they paying you lot? I don’t think anyone is actually buying your bullshit, and I could use the money…
what about regulation problem
Can you please elaborate? I’m not sure I know what you mean (and I’d like to).
does fediverse get affected by regulations meant for companies like facebook
Also a valid question!
I find it interesting that Meta Platforms, Inc., a company known for harvesting user data, is blocking some servers from fetching its public posts. They decided to implement a feature Mastodon calls Authorized fetch.
This was always going to happen. They will block agressively, because they can’t have their precious advertising money mixed with CSAM, nazis and other illegal content. And the fedi is full of that.
Umm Meta is basically only Nazis and Pedos at this point? I’d say there is far less of it on the Fediverse than on Facebook.
Have you gone on Instagram ever?
It’s normies and wine moms.
Nope.
But a quick google search shows:
Instagram has become a hub for young neo-Nazis to recruit young people to far-right groups, a report from an anti-racism group has warned.
Nick Lowles, Hope Not Hate’s chief executive, said: “Though we continue to warn about niche platforms like Telegram, a fertile recruitment ground for young neo-Nazis has been Instagram – its inadequate moderation and worrying algorithm recommendations are child protection issues that demand urgent action from the platform.”
Meta is Meta, I expect them to act like Meta and they do not disappoint.
Yes, of course it has Neo-Nazis, because it has hundreds of millions of people and essentially every niche community has representation there. The doesn’t mean it’s remotely accurate to say that Instagram is “only Nazis and pedos”.
The most followed user is Kim Kardashian, if I remember right, and she’s targeting the most normie women possible. Nazis and pedos aren’t exactly good for advertising.
This isn’t to say that Instagram doesn’t have moderation issues, but that isn’t contradictory to the fact that Instagram is not solely composed of those kinds of users.
