Why I probably won't defederate from Threads (plume.helios42.de)

submitted 2 years ago by dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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The fediverse is discussing if we should defederate from Meta's new Threads app. Here's why I probably won't (for now).

(Federation between plume and my lemmy instance doesn't work correctly at the moment, otherwise I would have made this a proper crosspost)

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[-] leraje@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I understand a lot of the arguments made and in reality you're right, if they want our data, they'll get it.

However, I also think that making it as difficult and therefore expensive as possible for them is a legitimate way to respond and make it clear to them that they are here on sufferance and not welcome. That might be seen as immature and pointless and maybe that's so, but I do think it's important to defederate from Threads to demonstrate our collective unwillingness to become their commodity.

[-] spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

There's also the case where it is ILLEGAL for them to try to procure our data through non-consensual means. This is why threads is not launching in Europe.

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