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Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" (wedistribute.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Like XMPP?

[+] [email protected] -6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not Meta.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Facebook allowed connecting with XMPP clients for a while and then cut off that access. While they were not the main offender compared to Google, they still did nothing but leech off the XMPP ecosystem until they decided it wasn't in their interest any longer.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm failing to see what's wrong about this. They used XMPP and then stopped? That seems to be exactly what people angry about Threads federation want Meta to do with ActivityPub.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The point is that at no point in time where they actually interested in supporting the XMPP federation. It was only a short term tool for them to capture some audience that it would not have otherwise.