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For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807

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[–] [email protected] 198 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

I was one of those people that said “let’s see if they will be acceptable neighbors” and well, it seems we have an answer.

If it’s true then I now favor defederation.

Edit: it sounds like this wasn’t true.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I mean who could've seen something like this coming?

[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago

After so many positive experiences with the charming and wholesome company Meta, now this completely out of the blue...

[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s not just true, there’s a history of this mentioned in the replies to the original masto comment. Pixelfed is a direct competitor/alternative to instagram and meta’s has a pretty clear policy of not giving it any airtime on their platforms.

Why, well they dominate the instagram style platform space (and I’d guess it’s their biggest platform ATM and most prospective going forward). Twitter-style platforms are new for them and introduce monopoly issues … so they toy with the fediverse to allay potential issues.

I think all of the schmoozing the likes of Evan, Gargron etc are doing with meta (they have active accounts on Threads AFAIU, for instance) will reveal their true colours (techbro growth mindset just the hipster way) and leave them with egg on their face.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

For sure they saw dollar signs down to road for them when Meta decided to create threads.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

I was one of those people that said “let’s see if they will be acceptable neighbors”

Despite how it may sound, I mean this in a non-snarky way. Are you aware of their history as a company?