Great, thanks

There should have been a pinned announcement post. Why isn’t this happening?

And when is it ready? Why is there no communication why it’s not?

It has a soft paywall.

I think the common practice is to link to the original in the URL bar and then use the body text to do paywall/loginwall removals.

there were significant issues with 0.19.4

I don’t know. There’s severe lack of communication regarding such things.

there are still some issues that are important for us

Such as? There’s no communication here of what’s going on.

0.19.6 was released 10 days ago and already had a followup release 0.19.7 to fix some new issues that were introduced in 0.19.6.

No software is ever free of bugs, especially not one starting with a zero version number.

if there are any laws stating that this is required to be possible as self-service i’d love to see references for that, because for all i know this is not the case.

Privacy laws here in Germany and probably the rest of the EU say that ther must be no avoidable delay in the deletion request of user data. 0.19.5 and newer have that feature, therefore by choosing not to update there has to be an avoidable delay.

That said, there is no communication of news and roadmaps. Maybe on proprietary Discord but not here.

on Fedihosting / LW we focus on stability and we target a version that has at least 2 versions released before we upgrade.

0.19.7 is the 8th version already, so…

We do this to catch all the bugs that gets noticed and patched.

LW is currently still violating privacy laws because users cannot delete uploaded media.

do you really feel it in DE?

No. It affects some data traffic between Finnland and Germany, not some random home network. There are enough fallback routes.

I’ve been trying to locate what I messed up in my home network earlier today

Your HOME network? I don’t think you know what the difference between LAN and WAN is.

Interest in hobbies related to commercial brands (following sports, movie franchises, etc.)

When you even mention that you’d like to follow brand accounts, people start shouting at you how commercial scum needs to be banned/defederated.

Of course people move to platforms where their interests are represented.

Let’s go with your idea of what the topic is for a second

Considering that I’ve replied to another person with my explanation and got very positive feedback, I certainly know better than you. You’re not the person I’ve replied to. You interjected and then tried to educate to me what my comments are about.

have you considered how advertisement posts could appear in search results, hashtags, or the explore section?

Any brand account on a regular Mastodon instance would be the very same.

Or what if they decide to screw with the normal process and artificially inflate the number of boosts and favorites for advertisement posts?

Mastodon doesn’t have an algorithmic timeline, so that would lead to absolutely nothing.

Also, Lemmy cannot interact with Threads anyway, so Lemmy servers defederating from Threads is completely pointless. Irrelevant to what I’m saying.

Relevant to the comment I’ve initially replied to.

What copyright? Threads users gave it away when they signed up.

Nope.

Your whole argument is predicated on the idea that a (personal) account on Threads is either owned by its creator, or is associated with a trademark.

No, I made several good arguments, you just moved goalposts and declared they don’t matter.

The topic is

No, that’s not the topic. The topic is ads being placed in the fediverse in a way only defederation could block. Even if Meta silently making posts in the name of my favorite organic orange juice advertising Coca-Cola was legal (it’s not), it would be easily solved by simply not following any Threads accounts. Also, Lemmy cannot interact with Threads anyway, so Lemmy servers defederating from Threads is completely pointless.

about them impersonating their own users and using that to push ads through federation.

No, that’s not legal. That would violate copyright, consumer protection, competition laws, and whatnot, at least in the USA and the EU. Mastodon users (!!) must be explicitly aware that a post is an ad, not the brands ticking off an EULA on Threads. Therefore Mastodon users could decide to follow a brand account were products are promoted (just as they can right now if that brand has a regular Mastodon page) but Threads cannot legally impersonate one account on Threads to advertise another account. That’s not a grey area.

I didn’t set a timer but it took me at most a single-digit number of minutes to find documents and announcements about the FTC tightening the rules about deceptive advertising several times throughout the years.

Threads has no influence on the terms of service on Mastodon. So no, Threads can’t allow to misrepresent profiles on Mastodon.

Why don’t you just cancel it now and use ad blockers?

Joel explains this in the second sentence: “I’m OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers”

Xbox is locked down and barely has any security issues on user hardware.

Threads had more users than the entire non-Threads fediverse within a day or two. Mastodon is not the competition.

That would be A) identity fraud because it would be my favorite fair trade drink endorsing Coca-Cola without the ads being clearly separated as required by many jurisdictions and B) not targeted advertising in any way.

Even if Threads posts illegally embedded extra ads: Users could just opt not to follow Threads accounts. Threads cannot just magically place ads in the feed. That’s impossible.

Ads already are posts, as I wrote but the main feed algorithm is not in their hand, it’s the local feed of mastodon.

If users aren’t permitted to follow brand accounts, they’re just being driven into the hands of BlueSky. Your attitude isn’t helping at all.

Modern NATO weapons and which ammunition? Which NATO tactics without air superiority? Ukraine doesn’t even get enough bullets to fire, let alone rotate troops to relieve physical exhaustion.

And sadly a successful one. Works all over the front line.

Still a bit worried about hashtags being used for ads

Coca-Cola could have an official profile on mastodon.social and use hashtags there as well. Whether corporations use hashtags or not in their “regular” Mastodon posts has nothing to do with Threads.

Also Mastodon has user-level features to restrict unwanted content to show up in your feed ranging from hiding boosts up to blocking the entire instance:

And since Lemmy cannot interact with Threads content at all, defederating Lemmy instances from Threads makes even less sense. One of the big Lemmy instances blocks Threads but doesn’t block CSAM instances. Insane priorities their admins have.