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Pros and cons of federating with threads? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by Jackolantern to c/[email protected]

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I saw in the posts recently how Metas thread grew rapidly in a span of just a day. I understand that since threads posts a privacy nightmare (no surprises there) I’m leaning towards de-federating with them.

But I am also cautiously excited about the massive amount of content if we federated instead.

So for purposes of discussion, may I know the pros and cons of federating with threads?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Pros: millions of users can interact with your instance

Cons: This is a super blatant attempt to consume all data. They have been doing this for years. “Log in with facebook” They see the value of the fediverse and aim to become the mainstream place for new accounts. Those users can then interact with any kind off community they want. Meta is not responsible for content on other instances. But they are harvesting all of it trough millions of clueless spies.

[–] Venomnik0 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point, the pro is kinda pointless now because these users are slowly being uninterested and leaving since the algorithm is shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I cannot disagree. At first i was worried about how good lemmy could possibly be with just a fraction of the reddit user base. Nowadays i feel like we got to many people already. Centralized under only a few instances no less.

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