I wrote our first Opinion piece in response to @gruber 's own perspectives on the negative reactions a good chunk of the #fediverse has towards Meta's impending presence here.
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@deadsuperhero @Mabande Which means the largest email servers actually have an allowlist rather than a blocklist, they will drop email from unfamiliar senders. The protocol itself is open, and yet nobody can set up an email server and expect to reach users on GMail or Outlook that make the majority of the network.
It’s indeed a good parallel against Meta’s coming to the Fediverse.
>> "But there are literally billions of good people who use their services. Why cut them off from the open ActivityPub social world?"
> "Confusing users with a service is disingenuous, at best. No one is stopping anyone that uses Facebook from joining the Fediverse. We just want to stop the company itself from bending the network to its own ends."
Exactly this. This whole piece is excellent! Thank you for writing it.
@deadsuperhero @fediversereport @gruber nice! Can I follow the site here?? 😃
@pbaesse @fediversereport @gruber Technically yes, but I'm waiting on an update to the integration, so that all articles get published to one ActivityPub Actor. Right now, every author is an Actor, so subscription is a little weird.
@deadsuperhero @fediversereport @gruber cool. How to follow anyways??
@deadsuperhero @gruber On the comparison with email I think it's a good parallel: every serious email provider has an extensive blocklist against domains sending spam/phishing/etc mail, much in the same way every serious fedi instance have an extensive blocklist against bad actor instances.
A lot of Mastodon admins are simply viewing Meta as a lot of email providers are viewing Jeremy Jaynes or Davis Wolfgang Hawke: they shouldn't be allowed on the service because of their documented history.