Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!

• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is

  I’m not sure if defederating is the correct counter to it

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Defederating from known-bad-actor corporations during the “embrace” phase seems like a perfectly wise choice to me. Keeps them from getting to stage 2.

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    • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not about us embracing them, it’s about them embracing the protocol, which they can do whether we stay federated or not.

      The argument against defederation is that it tells newcomers that the defederated instance is an island and they’re better off joining the place where they can talk to their friends. Meta can more easily extend if we’re not around to explain why extending is a bad thing, and if we’re not around to advocate for people to ditch Meta’s platform and join an open one

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      • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think it’s naive to imagine that anything we say or do will influence Meta’s behavior or strategy in any way. But I do see your point that when an instance defederates from Threads, it makes an island of itself, not of Threads.

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