Iāve seen a lot of discussion about Threads around the fediverse and I believe our main instance community has had a few large discussions about it (hereās a recent one).
I didnāt see an Agora discussion post, so Iām making one.
Can we all discuss our opinions on whether we want this instance to remain federated with Threads or not and share our reasons? Iād appreciate it!
If/when it comes to a vote Iāll vote to defederate just about any corporate-backed entrance into the fediverse, including any Threads instances. I think in the long run they will ruin whatever they touch.
Main developer and lemmy.ml admin Dessalines made this statement lately:
Link: https://lemmy.ml/post/1818412
(!meta@lemmy.ml the comments didnāt federate to this server very well)
Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta
It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and itās users will not be allowed to proceed.
We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.
As rumors have it now, Meta may not want to federate with any Mastodon instance but they may want to buy in with larger instances (buseness contracts including NDAs). Which means that some select places/admins may get funding to handle Metaās traffic and extensions, but the large majority will not.
some JUICY rumored details about metaās plans for the fediverse
Kev Quirk from fosstodon.org posting the invitation by Meta for a behind-the-curtains roundtable (and his reply)
https://fedia.io/m/DefederateMeta/t/43065/Rumours-that-Meta-s-strategy-is-much-worse-than-many-suspected
Itās also worth noting that the lemmy developers are Tankies and self-proclaimed authoritarians
So donāt defederate with Meta to own the tankies? That seems like pretty poor reasoning.
Meta and other large companies should be defederated preemptively. You can judge them by what they have done, which consistently runs counter to the interest of ordinary people.
Just pointing out that the devs arenāt doing it protect Lemmyās freedom.
Preemptive defederation with a scheduled poll for refederation one we find out more about what they are actually doing in the fedverse.
I really like this idea of a reverse āwait and seeā attitude on Threads
My main concern with Threads is basically them farming our content at the expense of our community vibe (instagrams social norms are basically the same as facebooks, comments are cancer).
We could watch what happens in instances that are federated with them this way without subjecting ourselves to their experiment
Letās not be Federated with them because no thanks zuck shenanigans
I have a vote for defederation, because fuck a big company. Theyāre not hurting us yet? They will.
