LALegault,
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Can someone tell me in the #fediverse if this #threads thing is #satanicpanic or a real thing? #fedihelp

✍️ Edit: Mostly Satanic Panic, #mastodon.

LALegault,
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Please 🙏 and thank you 🙏
#Mastodon

maleve,
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@LALegault my personal opinion is that we have Twitter/Facebook etc because of closed proprietary standards they use to keep everyone hostage. Want to talk to friends and family? Create an account. Want to leave? Haha lol no.

The activityPub standard give people the ability to flee a sinking ship with their contacts and talk without joining a walled garden.

Anything that moves us to open standards is a good thing.

The nice thing with Mastodon it’s messy but every instance can have their own moderation policies. Then it becomes a choice as to which home suits you best.

My 2 cents.

LALegault,
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@maleve

How many instances are people realistically trying out? It is arduous.

Also, people likely to try several instances out are all from the same demographic.

I find the server drama juvenile unless I am missing a serious safety or privacy concern?

sour,
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@LALegault
@maleve

have concern about culture change when most threads users join at once

LALegault,
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@sour @maleve

This is our house, and they will obey our rules or we will block them into oblivion

sour,
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@LALegault
@maleve

?

LALegault,
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@sour @maleve

Don’t let threads people change the culture of mutual respect and shared reality, its not theirs to change.

sour,
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@LALegault
@maleve

is too many people to prevent

DavidBHimself,

@LALegault From what I see, most people freaking out don't fully understand federation.
Sadly, leftist moral panics are sometimes as sad and ridiculous as right-wingers' moral panics.

If you don't like Threads, don't use Threads. At best ignore posts that will eventually show up in your timeline if your host hasn't preemptively blocked Threads in a knee-jerk reaction, at worst, block it yourself.

End of story.

MayInToronto,
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@DavidBHimself @LALegault

I disagree. The nature of federation is more like this:

Instance A: Hi, my rules are no racism, and if you have and enforce that rule, we can be friends and federate.

Instance B: I hate racism too! Let's federate!

Threads: I want to federate too! I'm huge and don't really enforce the racism rules.

A: No thanks, I don't want to see any racism. defederate

B: I'll wait and see.

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