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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

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[–] bear_cube@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We should be careful after looking at what happened with XMPP

[–] shekau@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Dju@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Google embraced it.