A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[–] TempleSquare@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a clear EEE attack. Do not federate!

[–] emperorbenguin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This makes zero sense. There is no financial incentive for an EEE attack, and these companies don't do anything without financial incentive.

Your content isn't original or interesting enough for meta to want it, and even if they did, they already have access to it without federation.

Threads on its own already dwarfs the entirety of the global fediverse by orders of magnitude. Anyone screaming EEE is just fucking stupid.

[–] themarty27@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry, but I'm a bit out of the loop, what is an EEE attack? When I look it up all I get is eastern equine encephalitis, which I somehow doubt is related.

[–] risof@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish