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Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net"

If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net".

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[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the contrary, defederation is vital to the health of the network. Choosing which instances to not interact with, like far-right groups and hate speech groups, allows users to focus on reasonable content on their home server.

The instance should also be transparent on which instances they defederate with so occasionally the user can venture out into the wild west and see other instances and their points of view.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That causes fragmentation of the network, which in turn will kill Fedi over time.

[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the contrary: Advising popular instances to defederate with threads will actually help promote diversity of instances, since the Threads population is orders of magnitude a larger network than Mastodon. Having popular instances defederate with threads will keep lemmy from actually just merging into the threads network.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

No, as I explained in other comments.