Gregory's ServerEdit: As mentioned below, it appears to be a bug, not intentional!
Threads hiding @pixelfed mentions, not a good look Meta 🙄
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 Yeah, I was gonna say ... they did this last summer too. Hey wait a second, I'm noticing a pattern here. And just in time for #FediForum too, stay classy #Threads!    @bart @dansup @pixelfed If a company with over $100B in annual revenue only gets slapped with a $5B fine once a decade, is it truly illegal? As I said elsewhere on this thread, this is not the first time: https://mastodon.social/@angdraug/112131267118667848 Given history and who META is, and their profoundly evil impact on the world, why would we assume this is unintentional? These fuckers employ psychologists to turn our kids into addicts of their product! If someone has punched me in the face 37 times I’ll assume the 38th isn’t a mistake.  I might be misremembering, but the previous official statements from Meta on Threads integration was that it would start as a one-way push. Meaning that Mastodon clients could follow a Threads user and see the discussion happening on Threads, but that it would NOT merge back any comments Mastodon users would post. Did they announce the two-way sync should be operational by today? Damn... 🤔 sorry, didn't catch that. You're right, that’s pretty low, and no, it's a filter someone wrote, tested and deployed, tracked in a Jira ticket. It's not a bug. @freakinbox for real what's up with that... they can say whatever they want. Even threaten people and it won't do anything about my report. Social media is dangerous  @freakinbox @dansup @pixelfed  @dansup @pixelfed means they're afraid! Have you noticed that fediverse talk gets absolutely no engagement on Threads despite Threads promising to integrate itself with it in the near future. I refuse to believe an average Joe is not interested in decentralization when average Threads commenter is so bent on politics. Of course it's impossible to test algo timelines unfortunately so we'll never know.   As I once said: a crap integration is going to be our greatest concern when it comes to Meta’s presence in the fediverse: They will do just enough to satisfy EU regulators, but definitely not more.   @dansup Is Threads showing Fediverse replies at all yet? I didn't think they were. I thought they were only showing likes.  Wait Wait What? But I thought Peter Cottle was all on about "federation" and https://fediforum.org/ just this very morning? Honestly, the irony (or hypocrisy) is just too thick for words "A long way toward building goodwill" And yes, that *is* Jorge, who I admire and Follow, but still Look at Cottle's reply  Threads doesn't show replies, likes, or profiles from ANY other servers. Their roadmap for joining the fediverse, from the very start, was such that they'll start with one-way federation, and then, sometime later, make it two-way.    I've found a lot of flakiness in activity pub comment threads between PeerTube and Mastodon alone, with each federated instance having random seeming replies and sub threads missing. Past behaviour may make malice an easy assumption, but for something like this with new software, bugginess or misguided implementation is much more likely.   @dansup proprietary software will always be proprietary software. Stallman was right, to this day.   @PersistentDreamer Pixelfed is an ActivityPub-powered social platform that @dansup is developing. It's focused on photo and image sharing. It's interoperable with Mastodon, so you can follow Pixelfed users from here if you want to. https://pixelfed.org The above screenshot documents and incident where a post on Meta's Threads was automatically marked as spam for mentioning Pixelfed. This is likely because Pixelfed is a competitor to Instagram and Meta is petty. And to think if it weren't for Meta being absolute petty dorks about this I would have never heard about it.   @angdraug blocking telegram can not be a bug, it can only be a feature, whether intentional or not. @TFFPrisoner i can tolerate hubs for conspiracy nonsense and extremism, but telegram is more than just another twitter + discord pretending to be secure — it belongs to a #russian and is probably transparent to #kgb, there are reports of opposition journalists having been misteriously arrested by russian police after exchanging encrypted messages over telegram. @tivasyk @TFFPrisoner Telegram is much like TikTok: way too beholden to an authoritarian regime to be trusted. I support the TikTok divestment act, and if Telegram goes down in flames I will shed no tears. That doesn't stop me from calling out Zuckerberg's anti-competitive tactics. Facebook, due to its massive scale, does more harm globally than Telegram and TikTok combined, even though it's not overtly beholden (other than the Milner investment) to Russia or China. Delenda fucking est. @angdraug @tivasyk @TFFPrisoner Wasn't Durov outside of Russia since 2014? Like, the man literally created VK and gave up on it because it couldn't keep up with their censorship requests.
  @dansup I tested this and I did not got blocked or anything. https://www.threads.net/@mogoh_viol/post/C4xsvpKMZb8 So I assume, this was just an accident. I know everybody loves to hate meta, I am am not a fan either, but I find it hard to believe that they outright ban the word pixelfed.   @dansup @pixelfed Actually, I can understand Meta doing this, but only in the same way as people who didn’t want to federate with Threads in the first place. A "bug", or as they prefer to call it "a happy little accident". Lets not ruin the positive corpo vibes bro! |
@pixelfed Meta is free to do whatever they want on their platforms, and I hope this is a bug.
I hope the fediverse remembers this though! (They have done this on FB and IG to us before)