I’ve seen that some instances have already done it preemptively.

  • Gray@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I, for one, vote in support of defederation from Threads. No reason to allow Meta to use our content to boost engagement on their for-profit platform. And pull users away from places like Lemmy at that.

    • Sturgist@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I decided to sign on here because of this stance. Also I missed the company of my fellow Canucks ;)

    • MrMusAddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Good-faith question for you admins to laymen like myself; what do you believe you are protecting yourselves from by blocking Threads? Isn’t the nature of the Fediverse resistant, if not immune, to corotate shenanigans? Isn’t the only thing you’re accomplishing by defederating Theads is that you’re just making yourselves invisible to a large userbase who are too lazy to care about their own personal data?

      We’re all still protected, no?

      • Shadow@lemmy.caMEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Personal take - I don’t think it’s reasonable to assume the meta will operate in good faith. I don’t have confidence that they will moderate their users, and I believe their only interest will be in slurping up 3rd party data to make their platform more appealing and decrease the chance a user will go elsewhere to find things. They don’t want you going anywhere else for that juicy ad revenue.

  • TheWaterGod@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    A lot of us just left a site because it was ruined by corporate greed. I don’t think corporations belong in the fediverse. If there’s a vote, I vote for defedding with Threads.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t see anyone here arguing that this instance should remain federated with Threads. So far it’s unanimous that we should defederate from them. I agree. We should keep this separate.

  • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    What are the objectives of defederating?

    To protect our data? They can create stealth instances and get the same data. I think we have to accept and be mindful that the things we share on the fediverse can be exploited by people we don’t like.

    To exclude their users? I understand they have partnered with Namecheap to offer users customized instances with their own domain. Is it even a technical possibility to exclude all their users’ instances?

    To make a statement? Okay, but then we need to do more than just defederate.