I anticipate that we’ll soon need to determine whether federating with threads aligns with the needs of our little instance.
From my perspective, I’ve yet to encounter a persuasive argument against doing so, particularly considering the straightforward process of defederation.
But I’m open to being educated on this matter.
Personally I’m against it. Fediverse has been a great way to escape the corporate internet and give people a space where they hold the power. Unless we react to these corporations looking to step in on this with hostility, our user-controlled space will be lost. Threads will have many times more users than any of the rest fediverse. This will give Threads much more influence than the rest of the fediverse. If we want to grow, it should be by our own merit, not because a corporation joined.
On top of that there are rumors that the reason Meta wants to join the fediverse is to cheaply dodge European regulations. I’m not European so my knowledge on this is limited. But if those rumors are true, then it’s another reason for me to be against letting Meta join the fediverse.
I think we should meet Meta’s attempts with joining the fediverse with immediate defederation.
Thank you Unchained for giving us users a say.
But is there something fundamentally wrong with what they are doing?
I get the apprehension. But I can’t see any issues thus far.
Perhaps just that they may muddy the waters with poor content?
Honestly, I haven’t looked into it enough. I should do more research.
Fundamentally no. I just personally do not like corporations and am enjoying having a space free from their control and influence.
At this stage, I’m happy to default to defederating them. Can always federate later.
The practice of “embrace, extend, extinguish” comes to mind with this. If Lemmy becomes 90% Threads then Meta can make huge changes to the platform. This would be a bad outcome.
I do like the idea of companies being able to host their own instance and join Lemmy, but I can’t imagine that going well until Lemmy is already strong on its own.
I’m happy to be defederated with them, but I also have my (pure speculation-based) doubts about the platform lasting long enough to make a difference.
