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The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How about corporations fuck off? Let us have our own small slice of people own and ran Internet back again.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The nice thing about the fediverse is that you could start your own instance and not federate with them

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

...or block them.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Yeah but now they have to play by our rules or get defederated. We are no longer at the mercy of profit motives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see no problem with this, if they federate instances can choose to pick them up or not