Watching a bunch of notable infosec accounts jumping on board the #Threads bandwagon makes me want to scream.
If you would expect anyone to carefully read privacy policies and app permissions, you'd think it would be these people.
They did the same thing with #Bluesky and I lost respect for those people when that happened. This one is even worse.
@voltronic there is some nuance in a personal branding perspective. A lot of folks rush to new platforms to get preferred usernames, handles, etc and protect their brand. Not justifying the behaviour. I can recall when an individual owned cocacola.com in the early internet days. That phenomenon lives on today with domain squatting and speculation.
@voltronic i don't get it why sign uo for threads when thread posts wull be shown on the fed=everse
i'm in ht e"well, lets wiat and see"
no expert me but
Meta are gonna screw mastodon somehow might take a while but it'll happen - force mastodon into adding ads - force mastofdon into paying for some new featgures etc,,,,, idk maybe overthinking
big fall out i'd say will come whatever happens
Meta and the Fediverse - in house fites to death threats
https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/30/meta-and-the.html
and
Meta and the fediverse: sorting heat from light
https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/07/03/
projrct 29 death threats and fall outs with admins lmao
@ecksmc
I don't think Meta can force the Mastodon instances to accept or do anything. I think that if they try to get aggressive, the other instances will block them as mentioned in these articles.
The whole thing is off.
@voltronic nope meta are not really in control that said what deal has been done some big admins had meetings and signed NDA's which kindda started this whole thing off
yeah the admins are in two camps "block from day 1" and "we will see what happens"
all in all mastodon admins are inn control with the blocking that for sure
interesting to see what happens as some users of instances have fell out with the "block form day 1" guys
will be interesting to watch -
@voltronic why meta choice this method is strange
they coulda developed an app withoutn AcvitPub not like mastodon has billions of users it's got a few million a drop in the water for mets really
deffo hidden agnda i'd say
@voltronic also users can block domains from their own settings it doesn't take admins to go full metal block mode
if individual users don't like threads showing they can block thread domain themselves
@voltronic On the other hand, it's nice of them to make clear who they are.