Timestamp for the discussion about ads:

https://flipboard.video/w/nLKq9MFfyMdLaqAmHtDUWj?start=37m55s&stop=39m43s

the norm is that the users block the individuals and instances they want no part of?

“Yeah, just block every bigot in existance and you will achieve a somewhat good experience”

Spammers also exist, and they can go long ways to avoid blocking by e.g. creating many accounts. There are people out there who could do this just to troll and harass a single user. If you’re fine with blocking every piece of shit there are - good for you. But it doesn’t mean it should be a norm.

Nah, the Fediverse is based on freedom of association while most people live in countries they were born in and leaving one is really hard in most cases. Not to mention that ‘self-hosting’ a state just for yourself would be considered an extremism by existing states.

The Fediverse is clearly a libertarian idea.

an even better thing would be to put more emphasis on user controlled blocks.

And force your instance maintainers to deal with the amount of bigoted content they won’t be able to moderate? There’s already a huge amount of stuff any other instance would be blocked with no hesitation.

Reminds me of this comment by one of the Lemmy devs: https://lemmy.ml/comment/6744852

Technology won’t save us if we allow unethical companies to mess with us.

YAY! Great news c:

I don’t think that’s possible. You have to be federated.

Still possible with intermediary but yeah, that’s much less convenient. Well, I hope that’s true. Unfortunately, even if they really have done this because of EU they still may try to monetize non-Threads users.

That’s reasonable although I believe it’s just not how they do things. This feature lets their users to move to ad-free mastodon instances including those that signed fedi-pact. And it will be available in a few clicks in their app (I suppose it will).

they beat Bluesky to full federation.

I also think they’re more interested in Bluesky.

Meta is worse than gatekeeping.

Why wait?

Yep, that’s really concerning. Is it possible for export account function to inject some kind of ID to continue spying on a user even after they’ve leaved Threads (even on a non-federated instance)?

If I understand correctly he’s talking about the ability to export your account data and then import it to another compatible fedi server. Other software (mastodon, latest version of lemmy, etc) also do it on a client side, so I don’t think any changes to AP will be necessary.

This is a key one: follower portability. “Eventually, it should also be possible to enable creators to leave Threads and take their followers with them to another app / server,” Mosseri writes. “I believe that it’s important that creators own their relationship with their audience.”

How do they benefit from it though? 🤔

Pick any popular colorscheme, like dracula or catppuccin, get some good wallpapers and make a screenshot with your most-used (or just favourite) applications. Keep it simple

I think the problem in this case isn’t freedom of speech, but the ability to scream so loud that other voices can’t reach the audience. Corpos and governments use their already established influence to control narrative.

No such problem on small instances btw.

Can you please provide a link to a post with a blocked image?

Did you reload the page?

You probably need to enable “I’m an advanced user” in the settings.

There’s a box to the right of domain names (the box with + and -), you can click on a left side of it to allow and on a right side to forbid it.