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My point is that Mastodon admins may not be allowed to defederate or block Meta, any more than Meta is allowed to not connect to them.


That's fine. Blocking their entire website from ever hitting your feed takes 2 clicks.

My point is that this really doesn't matter. If they use ActivityPub as-written, both clients and servers can stop Meta content from reaching their feed. If you just find Threads content annoying, you long-press the post and tap "Block Instance". If you're a site admin and have been given a legitimate reason to block Meta for API abuse (eg. poorly-moderated content, spam, advertisement) then you can exercise your defederation power and be within your right.




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