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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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[–] ryathal -5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

The threads hate is so fucking stupid. Companies getting involved with Lemmy would be awesome, mostly because it's a replacement for discord. The whole EEE thing is FUD, open source largely solved that problem. The people with control aren't just going to give Meta they keys anyway. Some corporate involvement could help solve some real issues with making hosting easier, reducing storage needs, and increasing federation throughput.

Corporate instances would be awesome to add to my feed for the things I want to see and it would be a way to attract people to get the more niche communities. The tools already exist for the people who don't want to see that content. If for example steam community discussions became Lemmy communities that would be a huge win for the platform.

Also threads isn't even the same federation model as Lemmy anyway and it's unlikely to ever actually federate to here anyway.

[–] Noel_Skum 6 points 2 hours ago

Threads hate isn’t stupid. Consider for a moment the literally dozens of people online without FB or Insta accounts. That is a choice. It’s nice to have somewhere that doesn’t have those users, with that groomed content, pumped for profit. Meta exists to make money - the Zuckdroid wants a finger in the fediverse pie to maximise profit for the share holders; not because he’s gone all in and techno-philanthropy. Having said that, the dilution of quality and nuance his user base “could” bring is the real worry though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Lemmy is a replacement for discord???