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1. Eugen 🎄 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 02:36:57 UTC Eugen 🎄

   #Threads is testing federation for a few selected profiles. I'm now following @mosseri! It's one-way for now, but it's exciting. It's a step towards the interoperable social web that we've been advocating for 🙂

   • selmins (selmins@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 02:36:56 UTC selmins

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     @Gargron @mosseri

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   • रघु मिश्र (rmishra@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 02:41:26 UTC रघु मिश्र

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     @Gargron Do you still trust meta? Their only interest is to harvest & sell user data. I am really concerned about meta creeping into our privacy. Are there any checks in place to prevent data collection?

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   • Eugen 🎄 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 02:41:28 UTC Eugen 🎄

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     If you’ve got questions about what interoperability with #Threads means, we wrote this up back in July, and you can still refer to it:

     https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

   • Eugen 🎄 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 02:41:28 UTC Eugen 🎄

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     Make no mistake, this is huge for Mastodon. Currently people have to choose between X, Mastodon, and Threads, and network effects play a dominant role in that choice. If we can say, you can access all the folks that went to Threads from a Mastodon account, that makes it a far more attractive option given all of its other perks 😉

   • FediTips (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 03:00:32 UTC FediTips

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     @Gargron

     This is really disappointing, Eugen.

     Meta's track record on human rights is so terrible, Amnesty International issued a report about their involvement in genocide:

     https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ASA16/5933/2022/en/

     This is the kind of company you're excited about working with?

     There is zero chance Meta is genuinely interested in interoperability, they just want to take over control of whatever community the Fediverse has built up. As Meta's CEO said, people who trust him are "stupid f**ks".

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   • PocketEleri (pocketeleri@thevipvipers.space)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 10:57:22 UTC PocketEleri

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     @Gargron @mosseri How do you plan to properly protect users and combat dangerous hate groups like LibsOfTikTok? Groups which Meta are either unable or unwilling to keep off of the platform.

     And short of defederating how are smaller instances meant to keep up with the increased moderation workload that this will require?

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