Afaik, whenever an Activitypub instance has defederated from another it has always had to do with some combination of bad user behavior, poor moderation, and/or spam. Are the various instance admins who have decided to preemptively block threads.net simply convinced that these traits will be inevitable with it? Is it more of a symbolic move, because we all hate Meta? Or is the idea to just maintain a barrier (albeit a porous one) between us and the part of the Internet inhabited by our chuddy relatives?

(For my part, I’m working on setting up my own Lemmy and/or Pixelfed instance(s) and I do not currently intend to defederate.)

  • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Regardless of what they MAY do, let’s take a look at what they HAVE done and ask ourselves if these are actions that are acceptable in our community.

    I say that disseminating misinformation and propaganda around elections in the US and elsewhere is bad and fuck ‘em.

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      1 year ago

      They’ve also carried out experiments manipulating people’s feeds to make them happier or depressed…

      Not only did they play a crucial role in election misinformation, but they’re largely responsible for the radicalization and violence in the alt right.

      We know they mine/monetize all your data they can…

      Fuck FB/Meta/Threads. People are going to removed about reddit and them simp for Meta? Give me a break…