I've been searching and finding circular logic and corporate level no-speak. Is there an official post clarifying as in YES or NO weather lemmy.world is defederating threads? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Techpriest@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I've gotten so tired of the non-stop reddit/lemmy/mastodon/threads drama I pulled the plug on all recurring donations for the foreseeable future. Thanks to threads the fedverse is starting the reddit style drama cycles and I'm pretty much over trying to sort through it.

I know I can block content, my concern is my refusal to donate to an outfit that supports meta or similar properties.

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[-] TheBenCrazy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No post has been made that I know of. Mastodon's CEO laid out his stance in the post below and I would hope Lemmy would follow with them.

Lots of echo chambering going on in here about EEE and Meta profiting off of everything. In reality, they can scrape data like anyone else, the profit from such small communities is negligible, and defederating meta would only hurt those that defederated because way more users than people here think will want to see and manage Threads while also not needing a Threads account to avoid the data hell that it is.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

defederating meta would only hurt those that defederated

That's a bit too simplistic. Defederation has many consequences, some subtle. It depends on personal preferences wether the sum is beneficial. Specifically, some people see it as an advantage to not see content coming from Threads, and not share theirs with Threads.

way more users than people here think will want to see and manage Threads

I'm doubtful, but maybe. We don't have numbers on this.

We also don't need to reach a consensus. Maybe there is demand for instances which are defederated and demand for instances which are federated. People can choose where to have an account (which includes the option to have more than one account), people can try to inform themselves about an instance's policy, and they can try to influence an instance. This is all fine, fediverse working as intended.

[-] TheBenCrazy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Agree and understand that users don't want to be flooded with Thread posts. I think until the user is able to block on their own, the main mastodon.social and lemmy should stay federated as most new users go there. If they don't want to see threads, then they can move to one that defederated. But only until the users have the ability to block threads on their own, then it should be the users choice.

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

the main mastodon.social and lemmy should defederate as most new users go there. If they want to see threads, then they can move to one that federated

Works in both ways ;) Depends on personal preference. I would strongly prefer my instance (and instances I visit) to defederate Threads.