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Just to play devil's advocate:
There could be some downsides to defederating it too:
threads could be a gateway to bring more people into the rest of the fediverse in a user friendly way.
It might cause the rest of the fediverse outside of threads to be more fragmented if some defedarate it and some don't.
Absolutely agree. The optimist in me wants to be excited for what this means and how this could impact the future of, well, the Internet.
But then I remember this is Meta we're taking about. They do not do things that are good for anyone but Meta. As someone who doesn't use meta products, this brings concern.
This is such a blatantly obvious truth that I'm starting to suspect some users here are astroturfing, peddling this bullshit feigned naivety about the rampant unethical practices of FB/Meta. There's enough history that we don't need to question it or give Meta a chance.
I've been working on building the !vans@lemmy.world community, but I may look into moving it to another instance if lemmy.world doesn't change their mind on federating with Threads.
Edit: I guess they've only stated their plan for Mastodon, which is wait and see.
Yeah, it feels like everyday there's a new post asking "HEY GUYS SHOULDNT WE ACTUALLY FEDERATE WITH THREADS?".
Agreed, feels like bots are here pushing for federation with Facebook.
They definitely do things selfishly in a way that maximises benefits to meta and ignore any downsides to anyone else, but while thier impact is probably mostly negative, there's some small positive aspects to some things they do, sometimes...
btw, can we stop using the name meta and call them Facebook? i feel like the Facebook brand has worse connotations that should be leveraged to get people off their horrible platforms
I've pointed it out a few times, but I think it still bears repeating.
Meta have done a lot of open source development, and in that way you're using "meta" products daily. They are the people behind React and GraphQL, for example.
React (and React native, also them) is one of the biggest JavaScript frameworks, and GraphQL is an alternative to REST api's that brings solutions to many problems around REST api's.
I can almost guarantee you that some of the pages you visit in a day use at least one of those.
They also have a lot of other things. You might have heard of pytorch, a major library for developing and running AI projects.
Just have a look at https://github.com/facebook and https://github.com/facebookresearch/
Edit: to clarify, my point is that maybe meta only thinks of itself, but technology wise they do it pretty altruistic and help the related technological communities a lot.