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Plans to pre-emptively defederate from threads? (self.meta)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Celediel to c/meta

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I just saw that lemmy.ml has pre-emptively defederated from threads. Are there any plans to do that here? I personally want nothing to do with Meta/Facebook, and I'm sure that's not an unpopular opinion around here.

edit: y'all, please pay attention to where you are when coming from all.

edit again: kbin really ought to make a post's home instance more clear.

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[–] bear 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry for the delayed response, my phone app has been being weird.

I'm sure there will be influencers. But at a certain point it becomes the user's responsibility for who they follow. We are not subject to their algorithm over here, so it's not like their content will be shoved in our face without our express approval.

I don't think we should defederate simply to protect users from themselves, we should do it when a server poses some kind of actual threat, which usually comes down to moderation in most cases. So long as they sufficiently moderate, which remains to be seen and I certainly don't blindly trust them to do that, I can't think of any real harm from federating.

[–] poVoq 2 points 1 year ago

This is not about protecting users from themselves. This is about protecting the wider Fediverse from corporate takeover. If you wait for them to become entrenched and start causing problems, it is too late IMHO.