It doesn’t block them though does it? My understanding is that it simply filters them so that you don’t see them anymore. They’re still there doing their thing though.

Before Musk, Twitters advertising was driven by engagement, and engagement was driven by encountering things that made you angry. So they were slow to respond to anything but the most egregious cases of hatred and bigotry.

He’s mostly on nostr of all places…

Fedipact is an anti meta pact that some instances have taken.

Blocked is instances that have blocked meta but aren’t part of that pact. Blahaj zone is one of the latter for example. We block threads because it houses hate groups. Were it to stop doing that, we wouldn’t block them, but fedipact members still would, because their concerns are to do with what Meta itself represents

I prefer Sharkey, but I’m sure that comes as no surprise :P

This article was the first time I understood that particular way of implementing nomadic identity, and it’s the first time I’ve felt genuinely excited by the idea.

My concern is that with “instanceless” nomadic identity on the fediverse is that ultimately, it would mean that instance would lose their sense of differentiation and community, and would simply be infrastructure instead, and that’s how we we end up with bluesky.

This implementation though is amazing. It lets people actively lean in to community based instances, without having to only pick one, and it gives people protection against loss of any particular instance.

I don’t see why not. And in fact, they would benefit from the whole relay thing, allowing multiple accounts on different instances to be the “same” community

Oh, now that’s fascinating, and explains some of the issues we’re having. Our hosting provider had some issues, so all of our queues were delayed. It took us a while to recover, but we got through all of the outstanding queues, except for lemmy.world, which still has a huge amount outstanding. And I’m guessing that’s because we’re processing them only slightly faster than new ones enter the queue!

Probably because in Egyptian mythology, Thoth, who was an Ibis headed deity, was the god of knowledge and wisdom, and thus Ibis became a symbol of knowledge and reason.

It’s somewhat amusing that the Egyptian Ibis is so closely related to the Australian Bin Chicken that they may actually be the same species

What do you mean waiting to migrate?

Post history migration will never be implemented. But you can already use apps to move over your subscribe lists etc.

Lemmy’s Image Problem

I see what you did there…

To me, the difference is that the power isn’t in their hands now, even with federation. If they don’t act on something that should be acted on, we can still act on it, even if only for our own instance.

Sure, if this were their first exposure to centralised social media and if they weren’t members of a highly targeted minority that are ongoingly harassed on those platforms.

But this isn’t their first time. They’re here specifically because they chose to get away from the experience that mega instances offer gender diverse folk.

And ultimately if Meta removes the hate, we will then refederate because the hate is gone and if that means some members of our community head back to a mega instance that takes hate seriously, that’s an acceptable outcome to me.

And if they don’t remove the hate (which they won’t), we stay defederated and it’s all hypothetical.

If you ever need to defederate, all users will see a barren wasteland.

If that were true, the fediverse would already be a barren wasteland, because threads isn’t federating with much of anything at the moment…

I would also not federate with one platform 10x bigger than the whole fedi.

See, I would be ok with that, if they weren’t full of hate.

I don’t see them removing the hate groups any time soon, but as far as my defederation approach goes, that just makes them like any other hate platform on the fediverse. They get blocked and I move on.

Would it be a good idea to have a more accurate (and therefore higher) number on how many Threads defeds there are?

I’m not sure that it makes much of a difference to anything? It won’t change Meta’s approach to the fediverse, and the pact tracker will never have accurate numbers because of people like me and people that that defederate without even knowing the pact exists.

I’m not sure how much faith you can put in those stats. My two instances are both defederated from Meta platforms for example, but I haven’t signed the Fedipact. For me, it’s not about Meta itself, but because they house hate groups. If they stopped doing that, I’d federate with them

Not quite. Yank would be a closer comparison to Pom.

Seppo is closer to “Pommy bastard” in terms of severity. It can be used in a good natured way, but it’s slightly derogatory.

Seppo is old, slightly insulting Australian slang for an American

A locked thread from 3 months ago that has been crossposted in to half a dozen groups isn’t the best example of how replies and comments federate across the fediverse.