[Discussion] What is our stance on federation with Threads?
[Discussion] What is our stance on federation with Threads?
I've seen a lot of discussion about Threads around the fediverse and I believe our main instance community has had a few large discussions about it (here's a recent one).
I didn't see an Agora discussion post, so I'm making one.
Can we all discuss our opinions on whether we want this instance to remain federated with Threads or not and share our reasons? I'd appreciate it!
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Main developer and lemmy.ml admin Dessalines made this statement lately:
Link: https://lemmy.ml/post/1818412
([email protected] the comments didn't federate to this server very well)Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta
It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it’s users will not be allowed to proceed.
We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.
As rumors have it now, Meta may not want to federate with any Mastodon instance but they may want to buy in with larger instances (buseness contracts including NDAs). Which means that some select places/admins may get funding to handle Meta's traffic and extensions, but the large majority will not.
some JUICY rumored details about meta's plans for the fediverse
Kev Quirk from fosstodon.org posting the invitation by Meta for a behind-the-curtains roundtable (and his reply)
https://fedia.io/m/DefederateMeta/t/43065/Rumours-that-Meta-s-strategy-is-much-worse-than-many-suspectedIt's also worth noting that the lemmy developers are Tankies and self-proclaimed authoritarians
So don't defederate with Meta to own the tankies? That seems like pretty poor reasoning.
Meta and other large companies should be defederated preemptively. You can judge them by what they have done, which consistently runs counter to the interest of ordinary people.
Just pointing out that the devs aren't doing it protect Lemmy's freedom.
You'd have more of an argument if you actually posted proof instead of ... well ... nothing.