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Christine Lemmer-Webber

Is it time for an Isolate Threads campaign

7 January at 17:40 | Open on social.coop
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Christine Lemmer-Webber

Get the fuck outta here Mark Muskerberg get the FUCK OUT

7 January at 17:41 | Open on social.coop
Christine Lemmer-Webber

Meta, 5 years ago: "Boo hoo you gotta let us control all the social medias you couldn't trust anyone else to do it. Please regulate us, please make regulations that literally only we could comply with"

Meta 2 years ago: "Oh we're gonna join the fediverse"

Meta today: "We're 4chan now. We can't let Elon Musk have all the 4chan fun"

Get them outta here GET THEM OUT

7 January at 17:52 | Open on social.coop
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Dan Sugalski

@cwebber I admit I have been rather satisfied with my instance's firm stand on blocking interop with threads. (And bluesky, which is inconvenient but from an ethical standpoint I'm 100% good with)

7 January at 17:57 | Open on weatherishappening.network
Pedr01gb
Dan Sugalski

@Pedr01gb My instance's policies are expressed in a bit of an absurdist way (weatherishappening.network/abo) (which, full disclosure, I have nothing to do with, I'd probably be more dadaist or cubist) but given their funding sources and many of the initial founders, Bluesky falls firmly in the death spiral fascist category, so was defederated.

7 January at 18:49 | Open on weatherishappening.network
David Palk#RejoinEU πŸ’–πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ€ŽπŸ•Š

@wordshaper @cwebber ? Honest? What's your issue with πŸ¦‹ ?

7 January at 21:28 | Open on mas.to
bojkotiMalbona

@wordshaper
The problem is that it’s not enough. you can block FBthreadsβ„’ to the fullest, but content from your instance can be boosted from an instance that does not block FBthreadsβ„’, which feeds FB and their users, rewarding FB and their serfs with your content.

#Activitypub is missing something. There is no technical mechanism to ensure being fully disconnected from the baddies.

@cwebber

7 January at 22:02 | Open on infosec.exchange
Daniel James

@cwebber this looks like preemptive compliance with Project 2025, section 28 on FCC: documentcloud.org/documents/24

In particular, the move to TX looks like a reason to cozy up to TX HB 20 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Ho), as suggested on p849.

7 January at 18:33 | Open on hachyderm.io
Ugur
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊

@cwebber

This was brought to my attention by the lovely Yaseen, but evidently Facebook Chat has renamed their trans- and enby-themed chat options to 'harmless' variants. Co-opting the flags and taking them from our community. Isn't corporate pride great?

To quote Tailsteak, Facebook is for toy cows and racist uncles, and it's clear that's only intensified since. I see absolutely zero benefit in federating with them -- less than zero, really. It'd be a massive drain on moderators who've done this for a community project, and would only cause harm.

@cwebber

This was brought to my attention by the lovely Yaseen, but evidently Facebook Chat has renamed their trans- and enby-themed chat options to 'harmless' variants. Co-opting the flags and taking them from our community. Isn't corporate pride great?

To quote Tailsteak, Facebook is for toy cows and racist uncles, and it's clear that's only intensified since. I see absolutely zero benefit in federating with them -- less than zero, really. It'd be a massive drain on moderators who've done this...

7 January at 21:27 | Open on chaosfem.tw
bojkotiMalbona

@cwebber
If you’ve not seen it, I suggest finding the video of Roger Waters responding to Zuckerberg’s request to the right to use Another Brick in the Wall. It’s very theraputic.

This is the text of the story.. but really the video does some justice:

guitar.com/news/music-news/rog

BTW, I try not to even use the hijacked term /threads/. I say FBthreadsβ„’ to clearly distinguish that garbage from a generic term we use in everyday language without intent to refer to a fiefdom.

At the same time, I see no problem with grouping Cloudflared Mastodon and Lemmy nodes with FBthreadsβ„’, because it’s all centralised in exclusive corporate walled gardens. All such enshitified networks should be condemned together.

@cwebber
If you’ve not seen it, I suggest finding the video of Roger Waters responding to Zuckerberg’s request to the right to use Another Brick in the Wall. It’s very theraputic.

This is the text of the story.. but really the video does some justice:

guitar.com/news/music-news/rog

7 January at 21:53 | Open on infosec.exchange
David Fi&er
Log πŸͺ΅

@djfiander @cwebber I find this comment to be highly inflammatory towards mycotrichoid organisms.

7 January at 18:36 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
Ji-eun Choi

@log @djfiander @cwebber why?

mycotrichoid organisms always parasite the fun guys

7 January at 20:49 | Open on mastodon.social
Kelson

@djfiander @cwebber And we can start clearing the area with some agenothree.

7 January at 19:09 | Open on notes.kvibber.com
Nilla Prynn (ThirdEarGames)

@cwebber i literally just finished reading the first two books of this series for the first time, and this reference hits just right.

7 January at 21:13 | Open on furry.energy
Bjornsdottirs

@cwebber The inventors of IRC invented the Q-line for a reason #krokodili

7 January at 17:42 | Open on mastodon.top
dracoling
fedipact.online
Davey

@cwebber it has always been time for an Isolate Threads campaign.

Or do you mean airgapping the company physically and not just a #fedipact kind of thing

7 January at 18:02 | Open on mastodon.ie
Christine Lemmer-Webber

@davey_cakes mainly I just wanted to indicate that by explicitly saying that transpobia and racism is now allowed, #fedipact is now the same level of concern that Isolate Gab was

7 January at 18:05 | Open on social.coop
FoolishOwl

@cwebber @davey_cakes social.coop should re-evaluate its policy.

7 January at 19:18 | Open on social.coop
Different Drummer
tsk

@cwebber I'm already there, this is my banner:

( also see @FediGarden )

Julie Andrews in the Alps, arms outstretched with "Defederate Threads!" banner.
7 January at 19:58 | Open on infosec.exchange
KielKontrovers
Fedi.Garden 🌱

@tasket @cwebber

The @FediPact account has been leading a Threads defederation drive ever since federation was announced.

7 January at 20:33 | Open on social.growyourown.services
:debian: πšœπšŽπš•πšŽπšŠ :opensuse:

@FediGarden

social.linux.pizza was among the very first instances to get banned by threads - after I asked them to lol

@tasket @cwebber @FediPact

7 January at 20:44 | Open on social.linux.pizza
CJ Paloma ...again

@FediGarden @tasket @cwebber @FediPact

I specifically moved to an instance that refused to federate with threads I know I'm not the only person to have done this.

7 January at 20:44 | Open on mas.to
UnlikelyLass
Deborah Rose

@cwebber How do you block Threads on here?

7 January at 20:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Bruce

@DebErupts

One way (I don't know if it is the best), is to find a Threads user's profile page and "Block domain."

7 January at 20:57 | Open on pnw.zone
joene πŸ΄πŸ‰
David Palk#RejoinEU πŸ’–πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ€ŽπŸ•Š

@cwebber yes, even though I was banished from the evil empire for 'offences against 'community standards''. His community standards are so low he's filling the Meta sewage works on his own. A giant turd.

7 January at 21:25 | Open on mas.to
The Nexus of Privacy

@cwebber Indeed.

See @jat23's Closing the Door to Remain Open: The Politics of Openness and the Practices of Strategic Closure in the Fediverse and the "Why the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact is good strategy for people who want the fediverse to be an alternative to surveillance capitalism" section of Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! for more about what's been done so far.

7 January at 21:38 | Open on infosec.exchange
GunChleoc
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