I choose sdf because it has typically been neutral on those regards. Let users choose whether they want to block whole instances or not. Federation is literally the word that gives meaning to fediverse, I don’t agree with the arguments who want to make the fediverse an “alternative” internet isolated from the rest.

Erin Kissane has an excellent article on why Meta doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. Meta/Facebook has had power over social media before and displayed incredible disregard for human life, much less anything else related to healthy communities.

To treat Threads the same as a brand new instance and federate with it is a mistake.

I’m very much drawn to the idea that users individually make the choice, but I don’t think openly embracing Threads is a good idea.

I’d much rather prefer a Fediverse without Threads than Threads without a Fediverse.

I’d say wait to see what happens. It’s possible it won’t even be able to federate with Lemmy, like with Mastodon, only having partial federation.

I’d rather not defederate. Why? Because the fediverse is open by default and so far we haven’t really limit-tested that philosophy. In my opinion, it is better to push the envelope sooner rather than later, if only so that we can learn from the experience.

If it doesn’t work out, then so be it. We have the tools to fight back against culture-death – this will not be Eternal September 2.0