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If you’re on mastodon.social, I would highly recommend that you switch to a different server that protects its people instead of exposing them to a well-known bad actor like Facebook/Meta via Threads.
For alternatives, see: https://fedipact.veganism.social
And remember that Mastodon is not the fediverse. The fediverse is much more than just Mastodon and definitely more so than mastodon.social and Mastodon gGmbH.
He said this right after offering his service to the Whitehouse, what a friggin bootlicker
Getting large institutional actors on Fediverse is a big part of popularising the platform.
More like: is internet big because a whitehouse (among other institutional actors) has a webpage? Is email big because whitehouse (among other..) has an adress?
I'd argue yes.
Well, arguably both internet and email became popular when commercial operators were allowed operations in the second half of the 1990s.
At that point Internet had existed half a decade, and email two.
@iju @big_louse That’s when they began to be exploited for profit. Because our economic system doesn’t enable us to image futures where exploitation ad enshittification isn’t the only possible option.
That was also the point where people who weren't businessmen or university students started having access.
Though I suppose there were alternatives, like government operated tech and services like that surrounding BBC Micro.
@aral Some people just want numbers to go up, regardless of what that means.
Yeah, I addressed that in my other post:
https://mastodon.social/@iju/112234235808358225
That said, I'd like to say that please don't assume something not directly stated. That's just strawmanning, and it's unbecoming:
https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112226607795971711
Also: expecting sainthood of mortal people in a complicated world is rather unconstructive. Even as "greater good" -arguments rarely end well.
Question is largerly is TERF-content something that requires defenetration or technological incompatibility.
@iju@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al @big_louse@todon.eu “if/when problems with Meta become obvious”
This is like inviting a serial arsonist into your garage full of open paint cans, gasoline, oil soaked rags newspaper and saying “we’ll worry about it when he sets a fire”.
Best thing to do is not open the door for them.
@iju@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al @big_louse@todon.eu the problems are already there! They are already obvious. They already amplify and promote hate content. Don’t invite them in.
More like: should a known cardless drunk driver be able to get a driving licence?
@iju@mastodon.social @big_louse@todon.eu @aral@mastodon.ar.al … no. They should not.
@iju@mastodon.social @big_louse@todon.eu @aral@mastodon.ar.al … are you now advocating for given known drunk drivers a license to drive?
@aud @aral @big_louse@todon.eu
I'm saying that everyone has the right to apply for a driver's licence. You can't take that right away based on their earlier behaviour.
Further, I'm advocating putting illegal drivers through drive school and hopefully learning how to drive responsibily.
And last: if they're unable to drive sober afterwards, the card can always be taken away. AND it's easier to document their further actions if they're on the right registeries.
@iju@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al @big_louse@todon.eu Jesus Christ, this isn’t a fucking parliament dude, stop shilling for due process of a guy who literally called everyone idiots for giving him information and then spent the next twenty years doing bad faith shit, including enabling a genocide. Fuuuuuck off.
@aud @iju @aral @big_louse “Quite frankly, the leopard hasn’t eaten MY face, and I don’t know if I can believe the faceless people that it was the LEOPARD who got them, and I can barely see that pile of faceless bodies way over there, so until he eats MY face, let him in.”
This goes to show whose testimony people are willing to trust, and apparently all of Meta’s victims up until now are less believable than Meta themselves. We’ve GOT to stop believing abusive people and organizations over the people they’ve victimized. If the threshold is that they’ve got to hurt EVERYBODY before we believe their history, then they will win.
@iju@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al @big_louse@how many genocide enabling servers that currently push hate speech should we federate with before you’re happy that they’ve shown themselves to be bad actors? Go lick corporate boot on LinkedIn.
The question you're asking is was it right for AOL to direct the masses to newsgroups.
@iju@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al @big_louse@todon.eu speaking of straw manning, that’s a completely different discussion and point.
@iju @aral @big_louse "Question is largerly is TERF-content something that requires defederation..."
Yes, it does. At least if you care about the safety of the trans people in your communities.
So we agree?
To enable blocking Threads it must first be possible to federate Threads.
So yes, I support blocking, and I don't support abandoning bridging.