I’ve seen a lot of comments suggesting Threads should be pre-emptively defederated by Lemmy/kbin instances if it tries to join us. I’m a bit confused what the problem would be. When Meta does its usual corporate bullshit over at Threads, how would that hurt a user or community based on Lemmy.world? If anything, wouldn’t it give the fediverse a boost if Threads users start discovering communities outside of Meta’s control?

I presume I’m missing something, as you can probably tell I don’t fully understand how Lemmy, Threads or federation all work.

  • ch1cken@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Its the opposite, if instances federate with meta, you can communicate with meta users without sacrificing privacy as you’d be using the lemmy instance of choice to do so, which sits between you and meta. Defederating is what forces people to install the invasive meta applications as they’re left with no other choice…