Threads has begun testing federation over ActivityPub. And they have blocked two important servers I administrate. The first server is the Mostr Bridge. The Mostr Bridge connects ActivityPub and Nostr together, so people can communicate across protocols. The second server is Spinster.xyz, which is arguably the largest independent feminist community online.
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!