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Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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This shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Meta is moving forward with their plans for Theads and the Fediverse, and their adjusted terms reflect a new impending reality for Fediverse users.

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[-] Krapulaolut@sopuli.xyz 31 points 11 months ago

Lemmy needs an option for a user to block an instance.

If your local instance is not going to defederate with meta then an average user can't do anything about it.

Yeah sure you can create a new user in other instance or selfhost an instance, but who would actually go through that?

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 19 points 11 months ago

Everyone should change their instance to one they agree with. If you don't want to be federated to Meta, go to an instance that's not federated.

User blocks are pretty much a simple filter, Meta will still have your data if you block them individually instead of defederating.

[-] zaphod@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago

Sounds great, but in the end it just means everyone has to host their own instance. That could be interesting, but I doubt everyone would want to do that.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago

Not really? There are plenty instances which defederate from Threads. If that's important to you, you should join one of those.

[-] zaphod@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

This isn't exlusively about Threads.

[-] whiskers@lemmings.world 1 points 11 months ago

They are still getting the data even if we defederate them, right? It's only us who don't get their data. This was my understanding on how federation works

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 9 points 11 months ago

Moving instances is easy, I don't see why you wouldn't do it. If you as a user block Threads then it'll probably only hide their stuff from you, while still sharing your posts and comments.