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 Hey everyone, Merry Christmas!

I'm pleased to announce that I have unblocked the Mostr Bridge, Spinster, Neenster, and Poast from Threads. Read more here: https://soapbox.pub/blog/threads-server-blocking/

This Christmas, let's make the world more open and connected.

Enjoy your freedom! 
 Merry Christmas 🎄 
 🎄Merry Christmas 🎄 
 What is @Adam Mosseri afraid of? Open networks FTW! 🙌 
 Merry Christmas! 🎄 
 So the only thing unblocked is fetching data through a relay?

Also, why wouldn’t they be allowed to to block anything they want and not have that be the norm? They effectively have for over a decade. Them using the “fediverse” won’t actually ever be them using the “fediverse” and that almost certainly aligns with their goals.

I appreciate what you’re doing, from a technical perspective I really do. But with the lack of moderation of disgusting Fedi posts that you’ve allowed through your mostr bridge into Nostr, I’m not surprised by any of this. 
 Also, Happy Holidays 🎄 
 My post got "flagged" on Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38763094 
 Hard to read all those comments from group-haters. I've gone the opposite direction from blocking grouos in that I don't even mute entire people anymore (people are more than their worst idea). 
 It’s a badge of honor bestowed to you by the hnpc news folk 
 Your post is making an impact.
Added to the https://nostraco.in/hot feed 
 Conscious conversations 
 Merry Christmas!
Thats amazing news, great job!

So I can now do username_at_threads.net@mostr.pub to look up Threads people? 
 Not that I give a shit about Threads, but you’re doing great work. 
 Good meta should be blocked. There just going to block most the fediverse anyway 
 feminity needed 
 tenderness
intimacy
sensitivity
love 
 romanticism
beauty 
 bitcoin is a love language 
 You're talking to a guy who is basically the fediverse hate broker...
He's friends with out-and-proud Nazis, and he hates LGBT people. 
 not all speak the same language 
 we need a new language

friendship
intimacy
tenderness
love 
 I call it adult swim 
 Swim > FFF response 
 if anyone knows the best beach in Latin America to get scuba-diving certification please LMK. 
 Breaking News:
Alex found dead in apparent suicide by 5 gunshots to the head with a shotgun and 3 stabs to the chest while hanging from a ceiling fan. 
Also, we found a suicide note disavowing the Mostr bridge and and Soapbox by his corpse
🤣 
 Please exercise caution.  This sounds like something that the DOJ would love to abuse the CFAA to claim is "hacking". There's nothing they find more threatening than free speech.   
 Merry christmas @Alex Gleason 
 Wait why is Threads blocking these servers ?