• tangentism@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    To expedite the process, Mastodon instances should just defederate from them entirely. Don’t let them access that data through ActivityPub.

    When Twitter had an exodus to Mastodon and a lot of new instances popped up, several were quickly defederated because they were scraping data from other instances, which made a lot of people uncomfortable.

    There were also a few far right instances that spun up that were also defederated and blocked within 24 hours so the communities ability to respond to situations like this is very much there and I’m sure that the vast majority will not want to have a single thing to do with meta