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Why I probably won't defederate from Threads
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I don't see who this gesture is aimed at. Meta execs won't care. They lose nothing. The result will be the exact same as building a closed platform from the start. And the users won't even notice because the mainstream doesn't even know that the fediverse exists.
I agree that getting people away from Meta should be our priority. But we don't do that by cutting them off from the fediverse and then begrudgingly making a Threads account to talk to the people we haven't won over yet. We do that by showing them that there alternatives that they can use without losing access to the content they already follow.
Sure, Zuck isn't going to give two shits that you and I might defederate from Threads and maybe it is just a gesture but I still think it's one worth making. The crux of it is - do they care enough about getting the data from .world or .helios42.de to go to the trouble of building a scraper? If they don't, then defederating is the right thing to do, in my opinion. If they do then you're right, its pointless.