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Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed (mastodon.social)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 34 points 9 months ago (5 children)

What's the point of planning to integrate with activitypub if they do shit like this?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 9 months ago

Stage 1 of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

To overrule it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

The short version is that Meta see any type of competitors has a treat to its capital. It will do whatever is needed to fight it and destroy it. They introduced stories for Snapchat, reels for TikTok, etc. With the fediverse, they federate to extinguish it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Divide & Conquer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This only hides content locally for Threads users, it doesn't affect visibility from any other fedi platform. It's not that different from a Lemmy instance downvoting a comment to the point of being auto-hidden; it still exists but requires an extra click to see from your instance, and the rest of the fediverse can access it normally.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The point isn't for other fedi users. It's to deter Threads users from becoming proper fedi users. It used to be those popups only appeared when something genuinely touchy came up. Now they're used for anything the parent company doesn't like as a scare tactic but people don't realise it. Google does this too with Play Protect.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

youre not going to get anywhere with this crowd. they are so overtly butthurt over the fact meta does anything with the activitypub protocol theres this fetish of 'how dare you communicate with that corporate run instance'

dont bother with the logic that EmbraceExtendExtinguish only works if the rest of the verse adopts proprietary shit

just dont bother.