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.)

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[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 5 points 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 bitch about reddit and them simp for Meta? Give me a break...