I’ve seen a lot of comments suggesting Threads should be pre-emptively defederated by Lemmy/kbin instances if it tries to join us. I’m a bit confused what the problem would be. When Meta does its usual corporate bullshit over at Threads, how would that hurt a user or community based on Lemmy.world? If anything, wouldn’t it give the fediverse a boost if Threads users start discovering communities outside of Meta’s control?

I presume I’m missing something, as you can probably tell I don’t fully understand how Lemmy, Threads or federation all work.

  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I just feel bad if all of us reddit refugees fucked up your platform. I think that’s what happened.

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      1 year ago

      Im a reddit refugee too, but the general shithead redditor attitude is absent here

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      1 year ago

      As the community grows big corps are going to want to tap into that growth and those ad watching eyeballs, regardless if that growth is from the reddit exodus or was independent steady growth.

      And with the fediverse being more decentralized and feder it does give instances a bit more power to cut off corporate bad actors from what they want, established communities with advertiser ready eyeballs.

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        1 year ago

        That’s a better way to look at it, the instances that are non-corporate have more power, I hope they can withstand all the pressure that’s coming their way. I will try to support the medium and smaller instances.