Notices by Michael Fisher (mjf_pro@hachyderm.io)

@feditips @Gargron Yet. New things get rolled into old things in stages, that’s just normal IT development cadence. The whole point of the APub deal with the EU was that antitrust claims would be set aside if Meta tears down their walls and lets their users exit with their social graph. If they don’t fulfill that part of the bargain, they lose their ability to operate in the EU, yes?

@feditips @Gargron Threads is going to lay in ActivityPub support whether we like it or not, because the EU won’t let them stay in business there if they don’t. That ship has sailed; nothing we do here can change that.

What instance admins *can* do here is block Threads. If they do, they’d also block Threads users from…easily moving to their friendly neighborhood Mastodon host.

Who would that help, and more importantly, who would that hurt?

@Teri_Kanefield “Things will happen when the experienced, skilled, and intelligent white-collar criminal investigation trial experts in charge of making them happen, make them happen” isn’t the “fix it NOW so we can finally change the damn channel” answer they’re looking for.

@BobApril @Teri_Kanefield How do you accomplish that in a rule of law system — with all its checkpoints and safeguards and, yes, “delay” points, without destroying the rule of law itself? It’s OK to have a dictatorial system so long as it’s not “their” dictator calling the shots?

@peteriskrisjanis @BobApril @Teri_Kanefield Exactly — That misplaced “hope” makes preserving democracy “someone else’s problem”.