vanta@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!tech.lgbtexternal-linkmessage-square581fedilinkarrow-up11.25Karrow-down1115
arrow-up11.14Karrow-down1external-link41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!tech.lgbtvanta@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square581fedilink
minus-squaren3m37h@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-211 months agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-scandal-fallout.html https://time.com/6217730/myanmar-meta-rohingya-facebook/ You’re also forgetting that defederating means that Threads has no interaction with the fediverse meaning they can only do as much damage as a user can to those instances
minus-squaretoasteecup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoHonest question, how would they be able to do damage via the federation protocol? My understanding was that it sends data regarding posts comments and actions to all servers. The closest I thought I had was some kind of instance ban but while that gets federated, it doesn’t result in a ban elsewhere Instance a bans user foobar Instance b sees this information but foobar is not banned by instance b. We saw some of that with the hexbear drama a couple of months back
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-scandal-fallout.html
https://time.com/6217730/myanmar-meta-rohingya-facebook/
You’re also forgetting that defederating means that Threads has no interaction with the fediverse meaning they can only do as much damage as a user can to those instances
Honest question, how would they be able to do damage via the federation protocol?
My understanding was that it sends data regarding posts comments and actions to all servers.
The closest I thought I had was some kind of instance ban but while that gets federated, it doesn’t result in a ban elsewhere
Instance a bans user foobar Instance b sees this information but foobar is not banned by instance b.
We saw some of that with the hexbear drama a couple of months back