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Tim Chambers

#Admin #IndieWebSocial

👉 Now that #Threads is official w/ a launch date of July 6th, I wanted to post this for our servers users:

It includes my thoughts on the state of play, our server policies, ways you can help & some thoughts on the coming days.

Spoiler: how we as a Fediverse have JUST handled the #RedditMigration & the #TwitterMigration3 gives me great hope for days, weeks & months ahead.

Up for any notes, or corrections, etc.

timothychambers.net/2023/07/03

cc: @fediversenews

4 Jul 2023 at 1:29 | Open on indieweb.social
11 comments
L. Scott Spencer
malena 👟👟

@tchambers Thanks for this info that they are not planning to federate this week, I think most folks do not know that. I’m guessing all the people who are working with them will be able to give us a heads up when federation is imminent

4 Jul 2023 at 1:44 | Open on alaskan.social
Tim Chambers

@seachanger - This information came from public reporting...but yes, important that we all watch closely and share the latest news accurately.

4 Jul 2023 at 1:48 | Open on indieweb.social
Ivy :fire_trans:

@tchambers
do you have any comments about this new app's egregious data collection policy?

4 Jul 2023 at 3:02 | Open on cutie.city
Tim Chambers

@ivy No different than for current IG app - and doesn’t impact Fedi users …and could give us a big pitch to move over those users to the ad-free, tracker free Fediverse.

4 Jul 2023 at 3:06 | Open on indieweb.social
Ivy :fire_trans:

@tchambers do you think that it's safe to allow a platform that level of anti-user policy to plug into the fediverse? would you be willing to bet the safety of your disabled users on it?

4 Jul 2023 at 3:10 | Open on cutie.city
Tim Chambers

@ivy see my argument here on a smarter way to both protect users than a first-strike defederation….
timothychambers.net/2023/06/23

4 Jul 2023 at 3:22 | Open on indieweb.social
Ivy :fire_trans:

@tchambers you didn't answer my question about protection for those with disabilities.

while Facebook could scrape this data, by using authorized fetch and defederating their instance we can crack down on it.

why are you so eager to give them the benefit of the doubt? why do we need to wait until things get bad until we act? we can clearly see their policy now from the apk and it's clear how they intend to run the platform.

you have yet to give me any reason to trust Facebook, and given their track record, I think they should be assumed malicious until proven otherwise

@tchambers you didn't answer my question about protection for those with disabilities.

while Facebook could scrape this data, by using authorized fetch and defederating their instance we can crack down on it.

why are you so eager to give them the benefit of the doubt? why do we need to wait until things get bad until we act? we can clearly see their policy now from the apk and it's clear how they intend to run the platform.

4 Jul 2023 at 3:33 | Open on cutie.city
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Johannes Ernst

A very thoughtful approach for how to deal with #meta and its #threads app by @tchambers

4 Jul 2023 at 3:44 | Open on social.coop
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