@dansup People have a good reason to be upset, because those open protocols have no proper tools for users to feel themselves safe in the case of collaboration with some big-tech corpos being well known for lying many times to users. Such things should be developed in the first place, before someone even began thinking on opening, collaboration, federation etc. Before, not after the fact. The order plays an important role here. Doing the opposite will only produce horribly disastrous results.

@dansup what does upset mean in this context though? Like, if you run a Mastodon instance, and someone goes: if you don't block Threads, I'm moving instances

You go: I won't block Threads

They go: alright, I'm moving

Is that upset? Because I see that as perfectly reasonable; this kind of freedom is what makes the Fediverse awesome

If people start harassing instance admins, that's a whole different story—anyone who does that doesn't belong on the Fediverse to begin with

@dansup totally agree with you!

@dansup

Necessary edits:

"Imagine writing an open source twitter alternative

One that is federated and built on open protocols

Then having to deal with users who are upset you are working with an established walled garden social platform whose entire agenda is to override and ultimately destroy those very open protocols in a demonstrated pattern of conquest and assimilation"

Finally:

"Girl, you can't have it both ways"

"girl"?

girl?

What is this, TikTok or a high school lunchroom?

@dansup I value the right of individuals to decide if they want to follow or block (instances). Having a choice is why we should be here. A walled garden decides everything for individuals, and leaves them no choices. Many of us wanted to get away from that.