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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago

Personal take - I don't think it's reasonable to assume the meta will operate in good faith. I don't have confidence that they will moderate their users, and I believe their only interest will be in slurping up 3rd party data to make their platform more appealing and decrease the chance a user will go elsewhere to find things. They don't want you going anywhere else for that juicy ad revenue.

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[–] Paradox@lemdro.id 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

It's also about the content threads will bring

Think about all the dimwits, grifters, and douchebags on Instagram. Think about how shitty front page reddit posts were. Do you want that here?

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[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

For this reason I tend to lean towards defederating because I genuine don't think your average Facebook user brings much value here - quite the opposite.

I just feel like people don't quite understand what defederating actually does and I don't claim to undestand either. However the little that I think I do undestand leads me to believe defederating isn't going to "cut them out" the way we're hoping. They can still see all the content here.

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[–] NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago

From what I understand, if we defederate from them, they can't see our posts either. See what happened when Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works .

They could still be see the content by creating another instance, or by getting it from lemmy.ca directly. I doubt they'll do that though, especially with Lemmy. Lemmy communities look weird when seen from mastodon, and I doubt they'd look much better from threads.net.

Also I hate how they called it Threads. That's already a word used for other things in this space. Theres a thing called the threadiverse, and it doesn't include Facebook/meta/instagram threads?

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[–] Gray@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 years ago*

I, for one, vote in support of defederation from Threads. No reason to allow Meta to use our content to boost engagement on their for-profit platform. And pull users away from places like Lemmy at that.

[–] Badkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 years ago

+1 for defederating

[–] TheWaterGod@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago

A lot of us just left a site because it was ruined by corporate greed. I don't think corporations belong in the fediverse. If there's a vote, I vote for defedding with Threads.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago

I don't see anyone here arguing that this instance should remain federated with Threads. So far it's unanimous that we should defederate from them. I agree. We should keep this separate.

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[–] Trifictional@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago*

This article has been circulating around the fediverse and I think it greatly illustrates why it's so important to defederate from large corporations before they can get a foothold. It's about so much more than just them getting our data.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html