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I want to know what YOU think❤️

In the past I have held a poll asking people what they wanted on our community regarding Threads and if we should block it or let the users decide

Now with the recent bomb dropping changes coming from Meta I want to poll this again

(the following post will contain the video Mark posted about their changes.)
mstdn.social/@stux/11378931593…

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Do YOU think we as an instance should block Threads and all Meta related content?

  • Do block Threads (83%, 524 votes)
  • Do not block Threads (16%, 105 votes)
629 voters. Poll end: 2 weeks ago


This is the video Mark posted about the policy changes on Threads.

Personally I do NOT agree with this in any form. Free speech equals hate speech and is often just an excuse

But please, judge for yourself


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stux⚡ reshared this.

in reply to stux⚡

This is the video Mark posted about the policy changes on Threads.

Personally I do NOT agree with this in any form. Free speech equals hate speech and is often just an excuse

But please, judge for yourself

in reply to stux⚡

this is about him being an ignorant opportunist and a coward. Has nothing to do with free speech.
in reply to stux⚡

BTW, that is reported to be a nearly million dollar watch he's wearing there.
in reply to stux⚡

It's not about free speech, it's about promoting stuff that sells attention, and about brown-nosing Trump.

Every time I think I can't loathe this douche more, he proves me wrong.

in reply to stux⚡

Peak post-capitalist feudalism.
The court's fool reveals himself.
The king didn't laugh.
in reply to stux⚡

All #Meta is going to become even more of a propaganda machine for lies and hate as Zuck continues to capitulate to the far right zealots in the US. Meta, and its counterparts, will doom us all.

#DeleteMeta

in reply to stux⚡

the idea of federating with a mass market platform seemed good, but threads never bothered to let their users see fedi posts (unless maybe they triple-opt-in) so it's pointless.

And now he's announcing that he views European laws with contempt and thinks the US should force us to change them?

Get in the sea.

in reply to stux⚡

Did people forget about what Mark Zuckerberg did when he was still at school and started with a tiny social media project there ? He spied on them and when a friend asked him about it he called all those who joined "dumb fucks".
theguardian.com/technology/201… (archive : archive.ph/esPAu) #markzuckerberg #zuckerberg #boycottmeta
in reply to stux⚡

I just did that, following instructions I found here for how to block domains even when my instance does not.
in reply to stux⚡

We do not have much power against those with enormous power but we can choose to not be complicit and decide to discontinue enabling them.
in reply to stux⚡

I am still of the opinion that this should be a per user choice. I follow some people on threads and I’d like them to have time to move. They already left X. Moving again won’t happen overnight. Choosing threads may have been a mistake, but it wasn’t a malicious act.

I have a compromise though. Make threads opt-in instead of opt-out.

in reply to stux⚡

I will not vote because I'm not on your instance, but I would vote Do block Threads if I were.
in reply to stux⚡

monitors, wait for cause. If others report cause, that can count too.
in reply to stux⚡

Yes, threads should be blocked, but not because of the content, but because of "embrace extend extinguish".
in reply to stux⚡

personally don't mind either way which is a huge shift from where I stood before. I haven't been active on here but I am glad I continued to support the server. I hope the "small" fediverse remains a safe haven for smaller tight knit communities
in reply to stux⚡

Deleted my threads and recent fb account (I'd made a new one to keep in contact with some ppl but they can text me) yesterday. Tho I'm keeping insta to post my art, these changes are absolutely disgusting. I'm tired of big tech cowards wanting to control the narrative.
in reply to stux⚡

I know I'm saying this from my beige account, but I have an account on mstdn as well. Please block threads!
in reply to stux⚡

this will cause alot of issues.

@thegreenparty and @greenelects are not on #Mastodon yet. If blocked, it will cause our engagement rate to drop and make the networking effect much much worse due to lack of content. Surely under democracy and freedom users should have the choice to block or allow #Threads

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in reply to stux⚡

Block threads. Protect your users. A user block does NOT behave the same as an instance block. If they don't like it and wont take the threat of what Zuck is doing seriously then they can go elsewhere. I have seen a huge surge of instances blocking threads since he did this and its for damn good reason. Block Threads. We should all be pressuring Gargon to block it from main mastodon as well.
in reply to The Mo :verified:

@Chromino Yes, we are going to

Give me a little time to prepare, ill post about it later 😉

in reply to stux⚡

The term "free speech" only applies when someone supports others ideology. What about people that doesn't? Free speech isn't hate speech. It's hate speech because people don't agree with some other. Especially in fediverse. You guys just ban out people. Is this any fair you say?
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in reply to stux⚡

People who want Threads can go make a Threads account. Federation will only serve to keep showing annoying ''so and so posted a popular thread' that you can't read the full text of without an account (as on Instagram). Let's not give the billionaire tech monopolists any more rope. We're done with them.