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The main arguments for people to defederate are

  • "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
  • A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
  • Defederating preventively costs nothing
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

We gotta avoid meta collecting data on the users of the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Oh no, imagine someone being able to see data that you publicly posted on the internet!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Bruh you know you can literally just download any lemmy data right now?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's why I didn't mention data collection in the reasons. Everything here can be parsed by thousands of instances. The issue is the EEE, and flooding the platform with millions of users coming from Facebook

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Literally all they would have to do is spin up a generic instance with like, one subscriber, federate, and then just kick back and wait. But yeah, fuck threads. .World should de-federate.