@ThePlant Criticisms and concerns of Meta aside, there's...

@ThePlant Criticisms and concerns of Meta aside, there's a lot of people on fedi that see this place as their corner of the internet, where no normal people are allowed in. Then they wonder why not even their online friends are joining this area and going for Bluesky.

Whining about Threads or Bluesky won't bring people here, it just makes you (er, royal you) look hostile and makes those on those platforms a lot less inclined to join.

Like 15 Dec 2023 at 11:40 | Wall-to-wall | Open on furry.engineer

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Liam

@Flaky yeah, this whole thing echos a lot of ridiculous FOSS zealot stuff and irks me

15 Dec 2023 at 11:41 | Open on mastodon.social

Flaky

@ThePlant Same.

And it's not like Meta doesn't deserve criticisms. There's plenty that they can be criticised for. But generally, fedi very rarely, if at all, listens to criticisms of their platform.

15 Dec 2023 at 12:22 | Open on furry.engineer

Matt

@Flaky @ThePlant This is a common thought of mine - people try to sell Mastodon as what it's not, rather than what it is.

People never went to Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, TikTok, Instagram etc. because of what they didn't do, but because of what they offered. I think people lose sight of that.

15 Dec 2023 at 11:51 | Open on mastodon.social

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@Flaky @ThePlant I agree with this, but the concerns about Meta, at least in my opinion, are valid. Now, if people federate themselves via Threads, it shpuldn't be very hard then to convince thwm to join FOSS platforms...
Then again, knowing Meta's record, concerns about security are guaranteed.
I guess we have to wait and see what happens.
In my opinion, I believe that company's like this should be blacklisted by default.

15 Dec 2023 at 13:16 | Open on mstdn.es

Flaky

@aliteral @ThePlant I'd honestly go for followers-only federation, which I believe Mastodon and Pleroma already support. If Threads joins the federated timeline that could be an actual burden for moderators, given the size of Threads probably eclipses that of the instances run by Vivaldi and Mozilla.

15 Dec 2023 at 13:19 | Open on furry.engineer

core

@Flaky @ThePlant
I've definitely run into that mindset here where I've replied to posts and then had users, not directly (yet), but heavily imply that I was not the type of person who was welcome on mastodon.

15 Dec 2023 at 13:36 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Flaky

@core @ThePlant Sorry you had to deal with that :( It's really frustrating.

15 Dec 2023 at 13:50 | Open on furry.engineer