If @mastodon becomes thread-like, I’ll leave social network forever. I’m done with meta wanting to control everything, chiefly the freedom of speech in a network used to communicate. I mean, really? The upsidedown World.

    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      9 个月前

      You can’t block Threads users or comments with the Lemmy instance block function, which basically makes the lemmy instance block function practically useless.

      • abobla@lemm.ee
        3·
        9 个月前

        Interesting, maybe this can be suggested as a future update for lemmy

        • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
          31·
          9 个月前

          It was suggested long ago. This useless bs is what we got instead.

      • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyz
        2·
        9 个月前

        Question:

        Is it possible that this happens because your instance has already defederated from threads?

        My instance (mander.xyz) has defederated from them and I too can’t block threads. (Fun fact: mander has only defederated from 2 instances, threads.net and burggit.moe)

        • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          9 个月前

          I think you misunderstand: lemmy’s new instance blocking feature that users can use only blocks posts from an instance, not users or their comments from that instance, which is what most people wanted the feature to do: block the toxic jerks from any particular instance along with their posts, comments, etc the same way defederation would. By only blocking their posts but allowing their comments, etc. to come through, the new feature is mostly useless, as it still requires users to be blocked individually.

          Since Threads is an instance that has, rather than thousands or tens of thousands of users like a typical lemmy instance, but tens of millions, this makes things even more daunting for users of instances which don’t defederate from Threads.

        • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
          8·
          9 个月前

          For countless thousands or millions of individual accounts? Are you joking?

          Instance blocking, should block the entire instance, users and all. Not just its posts. 

          • Wodge@lemmy.worldEnglish
            37·
            9 个月前

            If your stance is to stop any interactions with people who use Meta products, then you probably need to stop using the internet.

      • abobla@lemm.ee
        31·
        9 个月前

        I don’t know how to do iton mastodon, but I know it’s possible on lemmy 0.19 (lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemm.ee and others have this version).

        I’ve never blocked an instance though.

        edit: grammar

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    9 个月前

    There are better arguments for not federating with Meta’s Threads, some of which can be found in !fediverse@lemmy.ml. Firstly, Threads isn’t going to be able to restrict speech on other instances, at least not in any direct fashion. And secondly and more importantly, an argument for “freedom of speech” without qualifications is either naive or disingenuous: Paradox of tolerance

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    71·
    9 个月前

    Here’s a question, forgive my ignorance. Is there a way to determine ownership of an instance beyond the name of the user account that owns it?

    What if meta used their massive amounts of data storage to flood the fediverse with meta-owned instances, making it difficult or impossible to determine what they control and what they do not?

      • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        9 个月前

        Furthermore, greed becomes a factor when you consider someone could sell their instance to a corporation with no one being any the wiser.

        • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
          43·
          9 个月前

          This will be an ongoing struggle until capitalism is ended. Westerners think China has a firewall to keep The Truth out, but mostly it’s to keep foreign capitalists out.

  • SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.ml
    47·
    9 个月前

    To all the people worrying about threads: people don’t use it. They use it less than mastodon users use mastodon.

      • SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.ml
        11·
        9 个月前

        Check out all the articles on the massive dips following the sign ups.

        Dont know why I’m getting so heavily downvoted by people who probably havent spent a second in the ghost town that is threads (I have). Getting 30 likes on threads is like getting a million on twitter.

        Also, how are people not looking at my factual statement as good news?

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    412·
    9 个月前

    How would meta control your speech on a platform they don’t run?

    Oh no, your posts might not be visible to people using Threads!

    As a side note, I don’t think Mastodon posts should show up on lemmy at all.