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Albert Cardona

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Sounds good, but what's the plan for handling the fallout of Meta slurping in the whole social graph of Mastodon and using it for their own nefarious purposes?

14 Dec 2023 at 9:35 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mathstodon.xyz
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Mike McCue

@albertcardona if that happens most people will de-federate with their instance.

14 Dec 2023 at 18:42 | Open on flipboard.social
Petra van Cronenburg

@mike @albertcardona Some instances already started defederation: fedipact.online/ (and everybody can block Threads personally, too).
But I'm not sure if Mastodon is secured against "Embrace, extend, and extinguish": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,

14 Dec 2023 at 19:15 | Open on mastodon.online
Mike McCue

@NatureMC @albertcardona On one hand, that's the beauty of the #fediverse. People are free to federate or de-federate based on what they value and the kind of communities they want to participate in.

I would just caution that automatically walling entire groups of people off from each other out of fear could be self defeating for the Fediverse. There are many tools that can be used to prevent bad actors and bad behavior when it's seen. And more can be built to effectively federate moderation.

14 Dec 2023 at 19:57 | Open on flipboard.social
scribandotcom

@mike @NatureMC @albertcardona The irony here is that rando Mastodon instances (or really anything that supports AP) actually pose a much bigger problem for Meta via Threads than the reverse.

14 Dec 2023 at 20:08 | Open on mastodon.social
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