Context
- List of instances defederating from Threads, the Meta microblogging platform: https://fedipact.veganism.social/
- At the moment, Threads have incomplete federation with Fediverse microblogging instances: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/
- Another meme about Threads: https://feddit.uk/post/18194873
- Threads does not currently federate with link aggregators (Lemmy, Piefed)
- Threads could work with the microblogging part of Mbin
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
Did you point out we’ve never been fans of Status Quo?
That's the funny part to me. Every Lemmy edgelord likes to pretend that everyone but them on Lemmy is working for the DNC or something. I like the Democrats, and I can assure you that it's not a popular point of view. If I had a nickel for every time the mods stepped in to ban the person I was talking to because they weren't going along with my DNC propaganda, I'd have 0 nickels.
Sorry, I’m English, what’s the DNC?
Democratic National Committee. The organizing machine behind the Democrats.
Take all the worst people in the world who still wear the blue hat, put them in charge of one of the most important tasks in the world, and make sure to pay them huge amounts of money even when they are failing harder than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest, and what do you get? The DNC. They're the ones that got rid of Bernie Sanders and brought us Hillary Clinton instead.
Ok, thanks for the explanation.
I think I speak for everyone when I say we’ve had enough of US politics to last us several years.
Me too, Lemmy person. Me too. Sorry for inflicting it on you briefly.