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Embrace, Extend, Enforce (ƎƎƎ): A practical Strategy against potentially abusive Instances like Meta’s Threads (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/12225991

TL;DR: The common view on Meta’s Threads is that it will be either all good or all bad, leading to oversimplified and at the end contra productive propositions like the Fedipact. But in reality, it’s behaviour will most likely change dynamically over time, and therefore, to prevent us getting in a position, in which Threads can actually perform EEE on us, we need to adapt a dynamic strategy as well.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Ah but then it's too late. You think you are going to eat facebook's lunch, but it's gonna be the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Why is what too late?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Say threads has like 100 million users. Your instance federates with 1 million users. Then you federate with threads so now you federate with 101 million. You get some new users by saying "hey check it out, interact with Facebook without having an account there". Later you decide to defederate from threads and go back to your 1 or 1.1 million users. Who is going to stay on your instance? Anyone attracted by federation with Facebook is going to leave, along with any existing users that got used to/enjoyed federating with Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fair point - but: along with threads, hopefully there will be many other instances with, say, 20 million users combined. So the instance will still have 20 million users federating. And if the reason for the defederation was justified, maybe other instances will jump along too and then Threads loses 21 million users as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I will personally not be on any fediverse instance that federates with threads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Yup.

I will personally not be on any fediverse instance that federates with threads.

I will and if it is only to argue with insta-kids about the Fediverse. ha ha :)

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