I know no one asked me, but here's my opinion anyway:
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I know no one asked me, but here's my opinion anyway:
I said at the time that the best approach to federating with Threads was to follow your established policies. For most of the fediverse, that means to federate by default, and defederate if that becomes a problem. I stand by this.
I don't actually know what reason Meta had for federating. I doubt they do either. But the story they can tell is that it makes them more open and interoperable. It makes them one (large) provider among many within a market. Which means they're not an illegal monopoly, or whatever.
And if they try to federate and everyone else refuses to even consider it? Then the story they can tell is that nobody wants that. There is no market. And so they're just a normal website with a lot of users.
But if they try to federate, and the market is receptive, but then rejects them as unsafe? That's different. That's now a story that we can tell. And that story practically begs for stricter regulation, at least.
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Martin Vermeer FCDreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
@jenniferplusplus Actually abolishing moderation (except, I predict, for Trump satire - you know that is coming) is a completely reasonable and sufficient grounds for blocking, at either the instance or the user level. But yes, why not wait for blood on the ground before acting based on evidence that's there for people to see?
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Martin Vermeer FCD last edited by
@martinvermeer You seem to be responding to something I did not say
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@jenniferplusplus @timbray I always thought that effort was in hopes of dodging antitrust accusations. I wouldn't be surprised if Meta themselves didn't drop the federation effort considering the more favorable (i.e. evil) political climate.
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@RenewedRebecca @jenniferplusplus Agree on the antitrust angle. But there do seem to be weird currents of antitrust energy in the MAGA tribe, so who knows.
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@timbray @jenniferplusplus My bet is they'll antitrust whoever doesn't play ball with MAGA.
I can't believe they'll use that power in a righteous way.
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@RenewedRebecca @timbray I'm mostly thinking of Europe when I talk about things like antitrust. (I guess that's competition law, for everyone outside the US)
I'm assuming that the US will be an openly authoritarian corporate technocracy for the next decade or more.
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@jenniferplusplus What if we let people decide who to block, just like they decide who to follow?
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@MikeYin no one is stopping you
