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

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    8 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.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 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.

      • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        8 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?