Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads
kpw@kbin.social 11 months agoEasily incorporated into the posts themselves
We should definitely block instances who insert ads into the content. However there is no evidence of threads.net doing something like this.
Not now… But they can easily do it if they get a majority market share. Don’t behave like they want? Defederated from the majority of the content.
They could threaten to defederate from us so we should defederate from them? It makes no sense.
Are you familiar with the story of EEE and XMPP?
XMPP works great, I use it everyday. It doesn't have to be popular, you only need to convince some of your friends to use it.
registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 11 months ago
kpw@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'm not sure I understand your question or why you think of those statements as being exclusive. I will try to answer separately.
The good thing about the Fediverse is that it isn't a single service, but many federated ones. For any single instance, I think not defederating maximizes user freedom: A user who wants to interact with Threads can do so while a user that doesn't want to see any content from Threads can block their domain.
I think it's a little bit different from XMPP, in a sense that the Fediverse is a public space where I communicate with strangers, so I would like it to be popular. For instant messaging I just need my friends there, but sure it would be easier if I didn't have to show everyone how to create an XMPP address and what client to use.