Comment on If we're going to have an effective strategy against FB/Meta, we should clear up some misconceptions around defederation

• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate and don’t trust Meta, so the main benefit for me would be the ability to follow Threads users from my nonprofit, ad free, tracker free, Mastodon account I already have. I don’t want an account with Meta.

  That is the first actual benefit I’ve seen, lol. I won’t be following any threads users, so it wouldn’t be a benefit. I also don’t know a single soul that is a threads user either.

  AFAIK, there is only one Threads.net

  That’s not how it works. When you’re federated together, you get a copy of every post on your server. Someone else said that that can be avoided, but I doubt threads will do anything in the other instance’s favor unless they get something out of it.

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  • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When you’re federated together, you get a copy of every post on your server.

    Nope. Only followed accounts, and only toots made after the first user starts following it.

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right, we’re agreeing. That could still be millions even if the 160 million isn’t true.

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      • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It could be millions only if hundreds of Mastodon/Lemmy users start following hundreds of different Threads users.

        Which I don’t think it will be the case, since it seems like Threads federation is going to be opt-in by their users.

        If 50 Mastodon users start following 100 Threads users, the impact will be negligible, since Threads will only push messages by those 100 users.

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