Stay federated and if it's annoying, then defederate.
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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Defederate pls
my take on it is that i am completely against any kind of bridging between the platforms. i do think the fediverse in general is in danger, by being a victim of the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy
as many on lemmy, i use this platform because of its decentralized, open-source, not-for-profit nature, and think the whole fediverse community would be in jeopardy if we don't act
Exactly. I'm almost always against defederation, but the risk of EEE is why I'm in favor of preemptively defederating.
Defederation is meaningless, what matters is the dev side. Federating doesn't give them anything they couldn't get other ways for slightly more effort. The problems come if you allow contributions the greater community doesn't want to the code itself.
Just like every other time these things have been posted, I wholly oppose defederation.
I have no interest in welcoming Facebook/Meta/Zuckerburg's Big Goddamn Fucky Wucky Company to the Fediverse. I would vote to defederate from Threads and any instance federated with them.
If and when Meta becomes “federated”, I 100% will be on team DEFEDERATE.
Yep. Defederate.
I'm for the preemptive de-federation.
I’m in favour of anything that prevents Meta’s enshittification of everything.
Everyone must only answer this question for themselves: Do you want to have extra content at the cost of potentially more ads & tracking? Because that's their current monetization model.
How would another instance inject ads and tracking into this instance? If that's possible, then that's a serious security issue far bigger than Facebook, and is the real thing we should be discussing
Sponsored posts.
The fun option would be to flood threads with shitposts and make them defederate from us when they start to lose advertisers
They will just hide that content in their platform
Don't defederate immediately, but do it automatically three months after threads goes live if users don't explicitly vote to keep it around. I wouldn't mind seeing how it goes at first.
i think just treat them like anybody else
I'm taking off my admin hat and commenting as a user...
One minor correction to OP's post: Threads is a X/Twitter clone, not a Reddit clone.
I'm in the wait-and-see camp. If Threads someday links to Lemmy, and if it becomes problematic for the function or culture of the platform, then I will be in favor of cutting them off.
As @ryathal@sh.itjust.works mentioned, the real risk is that Meta starts steering Lemmy development in its favor. I don't foresee that happening given that dessalines and nutomic oversee code contributions, and they certainly won't allow it.
As an aside, I'm not convinced Threads will last long to begin with. It isn't looking like the X killer that Meta seemed to be hoping for. Meta has been trying to artificially drive engagement by creating shadow accounts for Facebook/Instagram users, and sticking Threads posts in people's Facebook feeds. Integrating with Mastodon feels like a further attempt to entice Meta users to adopt a microblogging app that nobody asked for. At this rate it may fizzle and die before they ever get around to interacting with Lemmy.