After close consideration we have come to the decision to block Threads.net instance wide on all related instances
(mstdn.social, masto.ai, mastodon.coffee, pixey.org, gram.social)
The new Meta policy goes against much we stand for and we will not allow to let it spill over to the Fediverse
I just checked the numbers and it seems Threads is the biggest 'loser' here
On all instances combined we lose just under 100 followers spread across all instances
Threads will lose over 13K total
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Gnosyz 🖖:straightally:
in reply to stux⚡ • • •FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Stux and all the mods over there, well done for taking a stand 👏
Hope more admins follow your example.
FallsMom 🟦 🌻
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Thanks for your thoughtful consideration on this issue, Stux.
I agree with your decision.
stux⚡
in reply to stux⚡ • • •I understand it's rough to lose accounts you follow from Threads but unfortunately it is not worth the risk
Hopefully people on Threads will realize the true origin of the company running their platform and will make the decision to join us here in the Fediverse ❤️
I really really tried making this work but I cannot go any further
Mark Zuckerberg is a person I cannot and will not with with in any way. Sorry not sorry
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Miranda Whiting
in reply to stux⚡ • • •stux⚡
in reply to stux⚡ • • •The Jantic-est Guy
in reply to stux⚡ • • •FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to stux⚡ • • •🥳
Take that, Zuck!
Ivor Hewitt
in reply to stux⚡ • • •The majority remaining just won't care.
Cainmark Does Not Comply
in reply to Ivor Hewitt • • •My spouse and her groups are all moving to Bsky. Couldn't get them to understand Mastodon or the fediverse and everyone they know jumped to bluesky because it seemed more familiar and most people they already knew were on it.
stux⚡
in reply to Cainmark Does Not Comply • • •Cainmark Does Not Comply
in reply to stux⚡ • • •@ivor
*sigh*
I tried, I really did. Same problem with Linux and LibreOffice. So much better in so many ways, but so many still choosing ad bloated or ridiculously expensive Operating Systems. No one listens until finally they get it somehow with their own experience.
廃墟猫/Urbex cat :chikified:
in reply to stux⚡ • • •stux⚡
in reply to 廃墟猫/Urbex cat :chikified: • • •@Haikyoneko @cainmark @ivor Well yes and no 😉
If you setup a PDS you still rely on a BIG part of the Bsky services for it to even work
Not by a loooong shot is it something standalone like Mastodon for example
stux⚡
in reply to stux⚡ • • •@Haikyoneko @cainmark @ivor Here's a nice sum up from many of them: status.bsky.app/
Not all but a lot, that are needed for your self-hosted "server" to even work
Bluesky
status.bsky.app廃墟猫/Urbex cat :chikified:
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Elon Muksis
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Femme Malheureuse
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Thanks, stux, fully support you. I had filtered Threads accounts and blocked the domain but this makes it more reliable. I don't want Meta harvesting my personal info or posts because a Threads account crossed the streams.
It's not as if folks can't go to Threads and follow accounts there by other methods.
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stux⚡
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Some people may wonder why it's now and not before and I would like to try and explain as good as I can
We are a relative large instance in the Fediverse so that comes with a lot of responsibility in making decisions. One of our main goals is safety but we also want to be open and connective until a certain point
Threads promised to be different and we always kept it with a grain of salt but did let the people decide if they wanted to block or not
The new policy is just far over the fine line
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
in reply to stux⚡ • • •gettie (:neocat_santa: arc) :OwOid: :verified_neko: :neocat_flag_ace: :neocat_flag_nb:
in reply to stux⚡ • • •> Threads promised to be different
lmfao
(i'm sorry, but i can't take that statement seriously, especially from that corporation)
stux⚡
in reply to gettie (:neocat_santa: arc) :OwOid: :verified_neko: :neocat_flag_ace: :neocat_flag_nb: • • •Vinnie (any)
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Libby
in reply to stux⚡ • • •SocProf
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Henri Verymetaldev
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Blocked them, was kind of weird to read President Biden's toots on this instance but no possibility to answer was a red flag already.
Good luck, you're doing a wonderful, very responsible job, don't be afraid to make mistakes, 'we' all do.
FallsMom 🟦 🌻
in reply to stux⚡ • • •richardmelendez
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Dipper
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Venta
in reply to stux⚡ • • •However, I don’t know what the Fediverse is - could you explain in language a non-techy can understand? 🤷🏼♀️
Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins
in reply to Venta • • •stux⚡
in reply to Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins • • •@maj @Venta Here are some sites on the subject!
fediverse.info
fediverse.party
fediverse.info
fediverse.infoMaj - Michele Ann Jenkins
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Mike Johnston
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Edit: I see your earlier post with Marks video - this makes sense. I didn't realize the meta changes making news obviously cause issues with threads and fedi.
Penguinclaw
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Aurora 🐌
in reply to stux⚡ • • •gary
in reply to stux⚡ • • •exiltoaster :breadified:
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Wouter Veldhuis
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
in reply to stux⚡ • • •stux⚡
in reply to Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 • • •Hot Potato 🥔✓
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Funfact: i thought mstdn.social and mastodon.social were the same.
TIL I picked the wrong instance. 😞
Northants Greens
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Kien
in reply to stux⚡ • • •MEIDAS TCat Ignores the lies
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Thanks!
L.J. McLean
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Laslo Jott
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Jon Quass
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Jesse
in reply to stux⚡ • • •SearingTruth
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Mastodon fellow citizen stux⚡.
Isolate evil to itself.
A brilliance that took me awhile to understand.
And appreciate.
ST
"The universe is self correcting, as ultimately a balance of forces, from physical to societal, must be achieved.
In fact the ultimate definition of hope is that the point of balance can be changed.
Yielding good or evil, and life or death."
SearingTruth
Miro Collas
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Steve's Place
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Alex Schwartz
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Regendans
in reply to stux⚡ • • •TransitBiker
in reply to stux⚡ • • •elCelio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Very courageous to block the largest ActivityPub instance! 😮
From which I've had 0 followings and 0 followers.🙄
RobertJackson
in reply to stux⚡ • • •*checks notes*
President Biden.
I don't think he will object to your decision, somehow.
Extreme Electronics
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Peter J Fullagar 🌈
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Brilliant!
I wonder if @Vivaldi will do the same. Hope so.
Magenta Rocks
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Thank you! I love my coffee!!
❤️ ☕️
Trantion
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Jorijn
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Regardless of wether this is the right thing to do, I fear you're misinterpreting this dialog. It says that 8611 people on mstdn.social now lost the ability to follow their favorite people on #threads.
Only 44 people on Threads can't follow their favorite people on mstdn.social anymore.
The loss weighs mostly on mstdn.social.
stux⚡
in reply to Jorijn • • •Jorijn
in reply to stux⚡ • • •stux⚡
in reply to Jorijn • • •@jorijn
im kinda sure he doesn't notices or cares but it's more us ❤️
Mark can go to that firey hot place down below
gavinisdie :troll:
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Celena 🪶
in reply to stux⚡ • • •lakelady
in reply to stux⚡ • • •My best life 🎒
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Antonio Picornell 🏳️🌈
in reply to stux⚡ • • •mwguy
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Samhain Night
in reply to stux⚡ • • •CrazyDogLadysezNoMediaJan20
in reply to stux⚡ • • •MrCopilot
in reply to stux⚡ • • •As someone with an account there and here I respect that decision and support and agree with it.
Thanks for the update.
👍
Dan Morris
in reply to stux⚡ • • •𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒚 𝑺𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒔 🌨
in reply to stux⚡ • • •NeonPurpleStar :heart_pan:
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Catherine Schmidt
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Beachbum
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Maria
in reply to stux⚡ • • •GoNancyGo
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok:
in reply to stux⚡ • • •The best time to have joined the #fedipact was two years ago.
Second best time is right now.
Welcome.
Bandersnatch
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Good. Fuck corporate social media.
#killthreads #killfacebook
Vaska Raeca
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Miro Collas
in reply to stux⚡ • • •millennial falcon
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Em :official_verified:
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Franceska Mann
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
in reply to stux⚡ • • •GolfNovemberUniform
in reply to stux⚡ • • •well we don't know how much harm was already done.
Also good decision.
@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differently
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Good on you for standing up for the KiwiFarms clone, Meta. 👍
Here's a link to #BlockMeta as a list of domains that's updated regularly :
infosec.exchange/@antimeta@bot…
Infosec Exchange
infosec.exchangeCondalmo.
in reply to stux⚡ • • •anguinea
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Good move.
Literally nothing is stopping Thread accounts from having an additional fedi acct to extend their reach. I know for a fact there are people on Bluesky who still pop over here to repost content and interact.
OnePlanet 💖🇺🇸 🌎
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Tanquist
in reply to stux⚡ • • •DUMP ZUCK!
Slumbering Girl
in reply to stux⚡ • • •David
in reply to stux⚡ • • •deewani
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Just Bob 🇺🇲♒🐧🪖
in reply to stux⚡ • • •The Queen of Weltschmerz🏳️⚧️
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Deborah Edwards-Oñoro
in reply to stux⚡ • • •kristophr
in reply to stux⚡ • • •I have blocked threads.net at the server level here at the-gathering.space as well. Its a shame. I did follow some (good) people on threads.net but I no longer want to support anything Meta.
Thank you for bringing this to light.
JuneSim63
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Kevin Russell
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Bernhard Huss
in reply to stux⚡ • • •sheislaurence
in reply to stux⚡ • • •noodle
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Timo
in reply to stux⚡ • • •PierParty 🏖
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Rasmus Grouleff (he/him)
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Thank you for making this decision.
While I'm a bit sad I no longer can follow those 4-5 Threads accounts I was following, I 100% support the decision to block Threads.
Jon Het.
in reply to stux⚡ • • •PNW Deb
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Baltergeist
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Lundemo
in reply to stux⚡ • • •John McChesney-Young
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Artem Anufrij
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Harley
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Ken Oh
in reply to stux⚡ • • •A Sweet Gentleman
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Thank you for doing the right thing.
iolaire
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Good call.
*** 🙂 everyone don't forget to send him some money to keep our "free" site up 😉 **
GayDeceiver
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Elon Muksis
in reply to stux⚡ • • •mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1106…
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva@mastodon.social)
MastodonNorCal Lynne
in reply to stux⚡ • • •McNadoMD
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Wizard Bear (💉x8 + 😷)
in reply to stux⚡ • • •katharina
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Reinoud
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Mr Lawrence
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Nick
in reply to stux⚡ • • •lordhyperion
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Pepperbike
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Sharon of the Strange Times
in reply to stux⚡ • • •fmc01
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Joe Heafner
in reply to stux⚡ • • •RiaResists
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Ari does not comply
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Just Bob 🇺🇲♒🐧🪖
in reply to stux⚡ • • •🦣丁斯特Dingster
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Afraid of Americans
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Ken
in reply to stux⚡ • • •I understand your decision. Unfortunately, this means voices for democracy such as #JeffTiedrich and #AaronRupar will be silenced at a time in the US where we are fighting to save #Democracy.
Thanks for what and the other system administrators do to keep the wheels on the bus.
Katykayay
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Darcy
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Everyone needs to get off Facebook, Instagram, and threads.
Mark Zuckerberg announced these sites will no longer fact check. So now these sites are no different than Twitter/X. They will be full of lies and hate!!!
PS sell your stock in Meta. It's going to lose value as people leave the sites!!!
Aral Balkan
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Thank you. Better late than never.
Now let’s see what the biggest Mastodon instance does. Is this enough to tip them over the line? Amazing that this level of unabashed fascist policy is what it has to take for the so-called ethical alternatives to block an entity that has literally fueled a genocide and whose business model has always been based on exploiting people. Maybe next time folks will act sooner and deny them their social capital to begin with.
Libby
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •PFloyd 🇵🇸
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Lee from Colorado
in reply to stux⚡ • • •marymessall
in reply to stux⚡ • • •The follower mismatch is because Threads still doesn't *really* allow its users to follow Mastodon accounts...
lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-no…
You Can Now Follow Mastodon Users on Threads (Sort Of)
Justin Pot (Lifehacker)happyborg
in reply to stux⚡ • • •👏
Why this took so long mystifies me.
"Awe, let's give the sociopathic corporations another chance" never made sense, and people only have the balls or sense to stand up to them the *next" time they abuse and take on us and it's impossible to ignore. 🤷♂️
#Threads #Meta
fossilite
in reply to stux⚡ • • •qevlarr
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Yuri Arabadji
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •F4GRX Sébastien
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Janet Grootebroeder
in reply to stux⚡ • • •misomunje
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲
in reply to stux⚡ • • •dixonm5
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Phil
in reply to stux⚡ • • •