I mostly agree. The one thing I will say in favour of defederation is hate content. Meta has incredibly lax moderation. People can literally say “this person deserves to be killed”, or even “I would absolutely murder this person if I came across them” and Meta will be like “yeah we understand this may be disappointing to you, but we’re gonna allow that to stay” if you report it.
Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months agoThe idea that they will destroy it by just… Being a bigger instance? Because they can influence development? Isn’t this shit developed by a tanky? A self-proclaimed stalinist? Why the hell would they capitulate to a megacorp? I’m more worried about the actual developers to ruin this shit than Meta and Threads.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Dnn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I saw that here, too. Thought about reporting when I saw the sidebar didn’t even have a rule against it (forgot which community though - my app doesn’t present that in an obvious way)
Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 months ago
There’s definitely users who will do that here. There are on any platform open to sign-ups by the general public. But my experience has been that it’s very likely to get removed if mods or admins are made aware. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a positive response on Meta.
Omniraptor@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yes, by being a bigger instance with piss poor moderation. We’d be overrun with trolls and spammers
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Even if you aren’t against federating with threads on principle part of the challenge is going to be able to keep up with moderating their entire user base en-masse and being able to afford the cost of federating content from so many users at once.
It’s a burden I doubt a lot of smaller instances can handle.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
You make a very good point there. That’s probably the best reasoning to be against federating with them I’ve seen.