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Context

The main arguments for people to defederate are

  • "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
  • A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
  • Defederating preventively costs nothing

LW stance: https://lemmy.world/post/1274909?scrollToComments=true

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[โ€“] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it really a mystery? Ruud explained why this has not been done, why don't you add his explanation to the context here? Don't tell me you have never heard about it.