I might not be understanding something about the fediverse, but isn’t this like if you couldn’t send or receive email from a friend because you use gmail Google decided to block @icloud domains?

Like, you’re not forced to follow or interact with it, and are free to block it if you can think of a reason to, I just don’t see why such an open platform used to limit users in this way

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    You can’t block anything from seeing your posts and comments though. That is point of a free and public space. Defederation isn’t doing what you think it is

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      this is exactly it. these people are posting public information, and are then getting butt-hurt when its used a public resource.

      im running an mbin instance (shoutout https://moist.catsweat.com !), which does connect to threads. I purposefully avoided using lemmy as its not capable of doing that. I wanted to give people stuck in the FB walled garden a path out where they could still communicate with their friends and family on threads.

      my only concern with threads is one of resource management/volume. I cant have their stream physically take down my server, so that would be the only reason for me to block them.

      a rather large lemmy contingent are vehemently, emotionally anti-meta. see also the ‘fedipact’

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        a rather large lemmy contingent are vehemently, emotionally anti-meta.

        Meta’s history doesn’t really speak in its favor