I look forward to them ruining everyone’s feed with ads as soon as they find a way as well.
If that ever happens I'll defederate them in a heartbeat.
lodion
joined 2 years ago
MODERATOR OF
I agree with your comments re: engagement and community. But Meta federating doesn't impact that. Their users/communities will not suddenly become part of your local feed.
As I've said elsewhere, that is the beauty of the fediverse - the plethora of instances with different options for users to choose from.
The reputation for brigading and generally causing drama on other instances is why I blocked them from day 1.
When I looked there previously it looked like a bunch of mostly harmless cookers. Looking again now, I see hateful posts such as this:
I've now defederated them. The NSFW focused instances are defederated to minimise potential legal complications, ie to protect this instance.
Yes, as posted below I'm taking a "wait and see" approach. The Mastodon CEO has posted his thoughts on Threads, with some compelling reasons to not defederate:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
Thanks, modded.
Thanks, modded.
I'm not interested in growing user numbers. But I am interested in having access to the content those users generate.
I am leaning towards defederating Meta... but for now am taking a more "wait and see" approach.
Sure, modded.
I'm undecided.
On the one hand, Facebook/Meta are not interested in the health of the fediverse. This is clearly an "embrace, extend, extinguish" move. On the other... they're sure to have a large number of users, which in turn means a large amount of content that we'll want to view/participate in. Each of those users will in turn be an opportunity for us to encourage to migrate to the fediverse.
That is a good point, that I've not seen raised elsewhere. Though to an extent, it is already true when you consider the size of aussie.zone compared to lemmy.world for example. Threads will of course be orders of magnitude worse.
Besides the human impact of the negative interactions, the technical impact on the server of providing content for umpteen million Threads users is also a non-trivial risk. This alone is making me think defederation is the better option until Meta have a) released details on how they intend to not overload existing instances, and b) as @[email protected] said "Meta can prove they won’t hurt fediverse".
Having said that, when Threads announce they'll be federating I'll put up some sort of poll to solicit feedback from the wider aussie.zone audience. I don't want to be making such a major change without soliciting feedback in advance.