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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Your comments and post history cannot be transfered presently. If you're already there (and fine with Threads potentially appearing) then its fine to stay. Too many communities are hosted there though so if you intend on creating any it would help the user base if you made it elsewhere.