• pflanzenregal@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Someone should make a post about why blocking Threads is good and why it’s not to be confused with gate keeping. If not properly communicated, this could look very badly for the uninitiated and they’re not to blame.

    Some people of course have an educated opinion against blocking, but many presumably don’t know the reasons behind it.

    • Cyber Yuki@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It is gatekeeping, but gatekeeping in the way of “Stop corporate offices in this town” and not “Stop people who we don’t think worthy from getting in”.

      As for why blocking threads is good, please google “Facebook Cambridge Analytica”, “Facebook russian accounts” and “Facebook fake republican accounts”. Also: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-knew-radicalized-users-rcna3581

      Please don’t treat facebook like a “decent corporation which only committed honest mistakes”. It sold users’ data to corporations, to the Kremlin, allowed users to be specifically targeted by extremist right-wing propaganda and spread disinformation about various international affairs.

      Furthermore, there is absolutely zero guarantee that Facebook won’t scan OUR posts for training AIs.

      It’s a known bad actor. Allowing Facebook into the fediverse would be as ludicrous as allowing Russians to live and establish bases in the US during the cold war.

    • bugsmith@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Care to give a summary on why you think they should be blocked ahead of any bad acting? Yes, there is some concern about Meta attempting EEE, but ultimately they’re a large platform that can bring a lot of users and attention to the Fediverse. There’s nothing preventing large instances from blocking them down the line, and with user level instance blocking coming in 0.19 to Lemmy (not sure if Mastodon et al have something similar), you can block them personally yourself if you wish, rather than having that thrust upon you by your instance admins.

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Because Meta has a long track record of being outright an evil corporation(not figuratively, literally).

        Meta has already shown its hand multiple times, why would it be different this time?

          • Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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            1 year ago

            Not OP, but some corporations are “less evil” than others, or at the very least less obvious about being evil. “Evil corporation” means they’re extra evil.

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        1 year ago

        Their “test run” was only sending threads posts and not receiving any fediverse posts.

        This is them shouting their intent, as far as i’m concerned.