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Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Threads will kill the Fediverse and chuds welcome it with open arms.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"everyone who disagrees with me is a chud"

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago

Nah just every corpo lover is a chud.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Threads will kill the Fediverse...

How?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Flooding it with minions memes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that half of lemmy world already?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Lol true. I had to mute the meme communities. Felt like a thrift store of 2012 Facebook memes

[–] SuddenDownpour -2 points 8 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm still on the fence on this. I feel like they should federate fully instead of only one way, but I'm trying to understand the threat from Threads. I know it's probably been done to death, but do you have a link or thorough explanation of why bringing more users and content to the fediverse is harmful?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Aside from E3 as shown below, my biggest fear is overshadowing the rest of the Fediverse

It’s one thing to say users can just individually block the instances, but that won’t help once the majority of all content is coming from them (and it will their user base dwarfs the entire Fediverse combined).

Individually blocking threads will lead to losing visibility of non-Threads users who are engaging with their overwhelming content generation.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

A good read one one concern. Another is privacy. Genuinely, thank you for being curious.