Aesthesiaphilia

“Nazis, people who liberated Auschwitz, what’s the difference?”

Everyone ignored the latter part of your first comment because this part is the meat of it. I don’t think you actually care about the technical differences between fascism and communism, and I bet neither does EnglishMobster. Quit pretending that’s what this is about. You actually do think one is worse than the other.

Tankies love motorized goalposts

imo there should always be an explanation for every defederation. It should be a requirement.

Ah the age old bullshit.

“Hey, I kinda care about my rights–”

“FUCK YOU, YOU’RE AIDING TERRORISTS AND PEDOPHILES”

Some spaces approach like 99% private. Tails + encryption for example. Still can’t ensure against governments monitoring tor exit nodes but other than that you’re pretty well golden.

Because it’s another “WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN” hysteria bait post.

They found 112 images of cp in the whole Fediverse. That’s a very small number. We’re doing pretty good.

We do know they only found, what, 112 actual images of CP? That’s a very small number. I’d say that paints us in a pretty good light, relatively.

Yeah no. “Needs to be purged” is not the language you’d use if you want to head off some sort of accusation. That’s just straight up personal hatred.

Coding is the future

Yeah according to coders lol

Fediverse just skews tech heavy. The average person doesn’t even know what a file is.

Their business model sounds 1000000% better than sucking up all your data and selling it to the highest bidder. Which is the alternative. Or people doing it for free/donations, which doesn’t scale.

They stop banning porn?

Which is a tiny fraction of Instagram, which is all it is currently.

Yes. And I’m saying it’s worth it.

If they don’t interact with the fediverse, it’s just another Instagram except worse than actual Instagram. It won’t gain popularity or become profitable.

Bingo. Conflating “every instance that ever said anything mean should be defederated” with “we should very specifically defederate Threads”.

Is the fediverse experiencing its first astorturfing? This is a serious echo of the kinds of stuff we see in other astorturfing campaigns. Straw man, muddying water, “just asking questions”, etc

There’s two separate issues here. There’s some people demanding their instance defederate from others because it had one or two nsfw communities, or one poster on one thread in one community said something they don’t like. These people are ridiculous and need to touch grass.

Then there’s some people demanding defederation from Meta because of how demonstrably horrible they are.

This thread is conflating the two, possibly on purpose. The former group is ridiculous, the latter group is sensible.

I would have phrased it as “supporting” Threads. If you don’t defederate, Threads will take over your instance. Either directly through the sheer amount of posts, or indirectly by colluding with your instance admins. Or both. It’s how they operate. And then the ads and data harvesting and walled gardens will come.

Defederating would pretty much cut off a lot of potential new users that want to see posts on Threads while also not wanting to have a Meta account and all the issues that come with it.

Kinda the point, no? Kill Threads in the cradle by denying it access to the fediverse.