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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[–] joe@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (15 children)

There's really no imminent threat with Meta and ActivityPub, as a standard.

As for Threads and Mastodon, the "threat" is mild. If Meta wants your data, they can get it without spinning up an entire social network. If the concern is that it's going to lower the quality of the content, well, there's probably some truth to that, but that would happen with popularity, regardless of which service became popular, and it's a problem solved by the block function.

[–] Monologue@lemmy.zip 45 points 2 years ago (14 children)

data is not a problem, you should accept what you post publicly to be well... public

what most people are worried about is embrace extend and extinguish policy, if you haven't read it already here it is

[–] joe@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Everyone on the fediverse knows about EEE at this point; it's mentioned in every other post haha

The dev behind Mastodon doesn't seem concerned. Why are you?

[–] Risk@feddit.uk 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Mastodon Dev says it's not a concern because of brand recognition.

That's not a defense mechanism lol.

[–] joe@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's not an accurate summary.

[–] Risk@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago

Please could you provide a better summary then? I must have missed the point, because I'm genuinely not understanding how the fediverse is EEE-resistant.

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