A community index of servers added a new rule recently, that requires every participant to defederate from Threads. Some admins are unhappy.

Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.

  • FiskFisk33
    534·
    7 months ago

    “the mass murderer have killed multiple people in Spain and Italy, but we can’t just assume he will do the same thing in France”

    • pingvenoEnglish
      525·
      7 months ago

      Sure, but this is Mastodon, not murders. Much lower stakes.

      • underisk
        283·
        7 months ago

        if the stakes are so low then blocking them is as low-stakes as not, so why make a fuss about it?

    • FaceDeer
      539·
      7 months ago

      Oh? I missed where Meta had done bad things to previous Fediverses.

          • poVoq
            91·
            7 months ago

            Facebook allowed connecting with XMPP clients for a while and then cut off that access. While they were not the main offender compared to Google, they still did nothing but leech off the XMPP ecosystem until they decided it wasn’t in their interest any longer.

            • FaceDeer
              37·
              7 months ago

              I’m failing to see what’s wrong about this. They used XMPP and then stopped? That seems to be exactly what people angry about Threads federation want Meta to do with ActivityPub.

              • poVoq
                71·
                7 months ago

                The point is that at no point in time where they actually interested in supporting the XMPP federation. It was only a short term tool for them to capture some audience that it would not have otherwise.