A community index of servers added a new rule recently, that requires every participant to defederate from Threads. Some admins are unhappy.

Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.

      • @FiskFisk33@startrek.website
        53•7 months ago

        “the mass murderer have killed multiple people in Spain and Italy, but we can’t just assume he will do the same thing in France”

        • FaceDeer
          6•7 months ago

          Oh? I missed where Meta had done bad things to previous Fediverses.

              • poVoq
                9•7 months ago

                Facebook allowed connecting with XMPP clients for a while and then cut off that access. While they were not the main offender compared to Google, they still did nothing but leech off the XMPP ecosystem until they decided it wasn’t in their interest any longer.

                • FaceDeer
                  3•7 months ago

                  I’m failing to see what’s wrong about this. They used XMPP and then stopped? That seems to be exactly what people angry about Threads federation want Meta to do with ActivityPub.

                  • poVoq
                    7•7 months ago

                    The point is that at no point in time where they actually interested in supporting the XMPP federation. It was only a short term tool for them to capture some audience that it would not have otherwise.

      • Ogmios
        26•7 months ago

        Well sure MS-13 may be a brutal trafficking gang known for extreme violence, but they haven’t done anything to ME yet.

        • OtterEnglish
          7•7 months ago

          I think this comment chain is going in a circle while everyone actually agrees with the underlying point.

          I cannot see anything bad here. Blocking an actively malicious actor should be the norm.

          It might be true that they aren’t ACTIVELY being malicious currently. It’s also true that they have a horrible history, and they will likely be actively malicious in the future.

          (I say ‘might’ because I seem to recall them being malicious towards the fediverse with secret meetings with admins, but I didn’t follow up on that)