The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.
@davidrevoy : looks like I will need to write a post to go with that new picture like I did with
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
@ploum Please do.
Many people seem to see this Threads federation test as a positive thing, or something to celebrate and I still have no idea why they do.
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@ploum @davidrevoy Can you explain which negative consequences you see from this? All the data they will get is public, so they could get it anyways. I don’t think that they can really manipulate the users of the fediverse through activity pub. Moderation may be worse, but there are laws enforcing some moderation, so it can’t be completely bad. If it really is, activity pub could possibly be extended to allow moderation of other instances instead of complete blocks.