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What exactly is the concern that they will do to us?
letsgo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
What exactly is the concern that they will do to us?
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Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If the Threads userbase eclipses the non-Threads userbase (which it would), and their dev budget eclipses the public’s (which it would), then Threads would heavily influence the development of the entire platform. Instances would be subject to Threads-influenced updates and “upgrades”, leading to eventual enshittification for everyone. To avoid their updates, you would need to defederate from the Threads-verse, where all the users are.
To prevent this scenario from happening to the current most active instances, theae instances need to stay defederated to begin with and therefore remain uninfluenced by the “development” that Threads will be pushing for Activity Pub and Lemmy servers.
realitista@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Doesn’t this have more to do with what git pulls are accepted than the status of federation though?
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Threads threat is a big-picture threat. The specifics can change month to month, but the end goal here is a corporate take-over of a FOSS technology. Gate-keeping at the dev level right now is a situation that can change over time as the corporation continues to insist itself upon the community. We will need to stay vigilant against this threat forever.
They are the borg. The defense against them will take stamina, patience and resilience.