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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by NineteenDoornails@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[-] notatoad@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

we shouldn't do anything.

Isn't the whole promise of the fediverse that whatever the policies of one instance are, that doesn't necessarily affect all the other instances, and each can do their own thing. If an instance doesn't want to accept traffic from threads, good for them. But to try to organize a fediverse-wide response to threads seems a whole lot like the centralization the fediverse is supposed to not be.

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[-] aranym@lemmy.name 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I run my own instance and am defederating immediately (whenever they start federating). I did also join the pact.
I'll evaluate their impact a month or so in and decide whether or not to refederate.

I acknowledge there's potential for a positive impact here, so I will give them a chance.

[-] Ipodjockey@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Fuck em. Burn this place to the ground before we dance with the devil.

[-] Macallan@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Another vote to defederate here.

[-] Empyreus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Threads is exactly showing the biggest problem with anything Fediverse. It's simpler for the user so it will be accepted. The amount of people I've already seen join is huge compared to mastodon.

[-] marigo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Lemmy doesn't need to be #1 in popularity. I'd prefer it to split and maintain a higher level of quality, even if it's smaller as a result. Even if Meta can grab data either way, it should be disconnected on principle.

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[-] guy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Given that everything right now is just speculation - I say sit tight, observe what actually happens and respond appropriately if it does start to go wrong. Defederation is very easy, we can do it when we need to

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[-] irkli@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] emperorbenguin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

What an excellent article. Informative and to the point.

Recommend everyone read it.

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

threads will never federate.

[-] Z4rK@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

What’s the DNS I need to block to never inadvertently get sent to anything Threads related?

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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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