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In the case of racist uncle wouldnt you need to follow racist uncle to see his racist memes?
I'm not a Mastodon expert, but I'm pretty sure you can still get their memes if they reply to you (or @ you), or if they post to a tag you're following.
Yeah but that's a user going looking for racist memes from racist uncle. As default they wouldn't show up unless you followed them but I guess that's the same for any social media.
I think it's important to realise that meta is going to roll out threads federation at some point however it hasn't done it yet and as level headed people we need to wait until that happens and how it looks rather than shooting our own foot off before someone breaks into our home because we've been riled up by basically the same posts worded slightly differently over and over.
Mastodon has three tabs usually, the followed users tab, the instance only tab, and the federation tab. The racist uncle would appear in the third one.
I'm not sure this is a level headed take... They say, when someone tells you who they are, believe them. Meta has already made it very clear who they are; I'm not sure skepticism is really in order.
And mastodon users who seem to be the most vocal of fediverse users on this no issue can already block by domain without federation or de federation needing to be mentioned.
Meta don't need to federate to get your data either. So I have to wonder why we have so many posts all saying the same thing attempting to rile users up.
Personally I don't care either way if meta/threads fails or succeeds I won't be using it and I won't be following any of their users. I would much rather be reading positive things about what people are doing in the fediverse than doom and gloom