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Why I probably won't defederate from Threads (plume.helios42.de)

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

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The fediverse is discussing if we should defederate from Meta's new Threads app. Here's why I probably won't (for now).

(Federation between plume and my lemmy instance doesn't work correctly at the moment, otherwise I would have made this a proper crosspost)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would someone create a Signal account when they can ask you to create a WhatsApp account instead?

People do it, because they're convinced of it for one reason or another. But it's a hell of a lot harder to convince someone to move when both are interoperable. Imagine if Signal and WhatsApp were federated together, do you think Signal would have nearly as much success as it does if WhatsApp users could just stay there to communicate with Signal users?