• Ghostalmedia
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    641 year ago

    Mastodon instances need to defederate.

    If you want to comment on any POTUS posts with the broader user base, you have to download Threads. Fuck that noise.

    • @Anticorp@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Don’t you love how the government is supporting private for-profit businesses? I received an amber alert 2 days ago and when I clicked the link it took me to Twitter. I don’t have a Twitter account and the page wouldn’t load. What in the actual fuck? Our government is using a website run by an insane man-child for critical infrastructure.

        • @Anticorp@lemmy.world
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          121 year ago

          My point is that they should have a dedicated public service website that they use for these sorts of things.

          • Ghostalmedia
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            Your state or county is probably using what was identified as an easy and accessible solution several years ago. It was probably selected because it was something any yahoo could easily access and post to.

            Now that there are a lot of cheap and easy FOSS alternatives, it probably wouldn’t be too hard to petition for a ballot initiative that required these alerts to be published on a state masto instance or something.

      • Flax
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        31 year ago

        The sooner they use the fediverse the better

    • @electricprism@lemmy.ml
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      61 year ago

      That would be like Gmail blocking Yahoo, it defeats the purpose of a Fediverse especially when users can already block content from domains they dislike.

      • Draconic NEO
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        11 year ago

        First of all, no it doesn’t. The fediverse is about servers communicating with each other, that doesn’t mean all servers, it just means that multiple servers communicate, and if a server is being problematic it will be blocked or limited, as another example a good amount of servers limit or block Mastodon.social and due to spam issues. Threads in this regard is no different, it just so happens to be a much bigger problem than Mastodon.social hence why there is much stronger efforts to defederate it.

        especially when users can already block content from domains they dislike.

        No, you are deliberately or unintentionally misrepresenting how domain blocks and indeed blocking in general works in Lemmy (Domain blocks target communities and do not hide users or their content), and even with Mastodon this doesn’t solve the biggest problems with threads, that being the extremely poor moderation and the EEE threat which are server wide problems and not user preference issues.