💯 - then again - if people in the wider fediverse want to engage with the meta world - people might abandon the premptive blockers and move to instances that are not – the people will ultimately decide - even though the instances might THINK they are in power.

💯 As much as I think Facebook should be marginalized, that is not the goal. We should all work hard to reach the people that Facebook currently has locked away. Openness is the best way to do that. The more people realize there’s more to the social Internet than Facebook the better.

@manton so long as the finger is on the trigger at the first sign of “embrace, extend, extinguish”

blocking it as a whole is not the way to go, but at least providing ways for users to do it on their own, IMHO, is the best.

@pratik you see this sounds easy but the effort it takes says otherwise. I don’t know about other ActivityPub-compliant software, but Mastodon has that feature to be private and to unlist posts. I know Wordpress and Micro.blog have it as an all or nothing setting.

@pratik this is akin to saying, if you don’t agree with Google and Apple on how they control their platform, build your own.

@pratik haha true that, but then again - wrt Meta, fool me once…

it seems the important work is to figure out how to block ads (preferably in the protocol, but otherwise if not)

@toddgrotenhuis It’s not clear yet if ads will even federate outside Meta, or if they’ll just be inside Meta’s app. We’ll see!