For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807

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      4 months ago

      I just feel like this strategy won’t work for activitypub. The whole idea is to make interoperable web platforms. If meta tries to damage that then I don’t see why activitypub developers would cooperate when it’s against the whole purpose of the project.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t think you have to know how the poison works to know the snake bite will kill you.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Criticisms_and_controversies

        They will come here (edit: They HAVE come here) with a goal of exploiting and controlling the fediverse. You and I don’t have to know how they will do that in order for it to be true. Scrubbing links to a product that competes with Instagram from threads seems like a decent start though.

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          3 months ago

          I mean I am completely unsurprised by their misbehavior, I’m just slightly more optimistic about our ability to resist them.

          That said, the one danger I can see is Meta gaining more authority over the activitypub developers. That is probably something worth being vigilant about.

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            3 months ago

            I’m just slightly more optimistic about our ability to resist them.

            What form would such resistance take if not advocating loudly for defederation?