While I hate that this happened, it’s kind of…fun?..to be in a more wild-west corner of the internet again where this kind of shit sometimes happens. I dunno man the lack of stability is refreshing. Less corpo and more chaotic energy. Real wasteland shit.
While I don’t have love for meta/facebook/instagram/whatever corpo name they’re deciding to lead with this month, the fediverse blocking off people who want to join it seems odd. Like, we want the fediverse to be a thing so that everything can talk to everything else and the content itself can be king without having to worry too much about where that content lives. So we have a standard (ActivityPub, among others) that we want people to use so it all Just Works™, and we have a large entity adopting it and we shit on them for it? Like I said I don’t have any love for threads or meta at all, but shouldn’t we be at least a little happy that the very concept of federation isn’t able to be ignored in this way? What’s the benefit of building all this that we want the world to use and then getting mad and booting people who choose to connect to it?
I don’t have strong feelings about this one way or the other I just don’t see the danger or damage in letting federation happen and just letting users decide what they want to view and what they don’t.