knightly

As opposed to selective enforcement of regulation mostly informed by nationalism and insider trading?

How is this even a question. XD

And?

I'm not most people, I'm me.

I'm not about to let other people's ignorance about the social media landscape keep me from enjoying my niche.

Private communications are covered by copyright.

The DMCA specifically prohibits breaking or bypassing any kind of access controls.

The only way this could not be a DMCA violation is if they only ever used it to monitor traffic for their own subdomains.

Good for you, but that won’t help majority of the people who don’t know or can’t run their own instance.

Why would I want to see posts from people on social networks who care so little about social networking that they've joined a corporate app?

Also the moment you make a post out to one of those instances that hasn’t defeated, Threads will just hoover your post right up.

It's not ideal, for sure, but at least I won't have to see any posts from threads.

If you take off the nationalist filter you'll see that they are the same issue.

Social networks don't need middlemen, middlemen need social networks that rely on server/client architecture they can exploit.

So long as my instance continues to block instances that don't block threads, I'm happy.

I don't need a public-facing microblogging service, I like having my own little dark corner on the internet. https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/23/evacuate-the-platforms/#let-the-platforms-burn

The only places Threads can federate with are instances that are so poorly managed that they don't even block Threads.

The DMCA is also not specific to the method. Bypassing encryption is legally the same as breaking it.

There's no exceptions for fair use, if you break the encryption at all then you're in violation of the DMCA.

I'd only accept the TikTok argument when it gets applied to all social media companies in equal measure.

We don't need one-off bans that let the worst offenders get away with exploiting people's personal data. We need a bill of privacy rights.

The whole point of federation is that you aren't locked in the sinking ship. If everyone is defederating from your instance you can move to a better one.