I am not a piped user so I am not 100% updated but as far as I know, Google is blocking the various piped instances by their IP

Yep and PiHole just to cover other devices too

I am already on Linux so I am ok on that side 😎

This is why I decided to migrate to Firefox a few days ago

Wtf, it doesn’t make any absolute sense to defederate from instances that accepted to federate with threads!

I think that activityPub is different from what happened with XMPP. XMPP was a niche product at that time so after Google stepped out, only a disrupted niche reamined.

Here we are a lot of users on our own. If meta starts to do their own implementations of features too difficult to replicate (EEE) or they decide to stop using activityPub, we’ll be fine on our own again.

Anyway, https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html