A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (15 children)

@panja

Meta is going to kill the Fediverse and it's all probably a part of Zuck's grand plan.

[–] necrxfagivs 20 points 2 years ago (12 children)

How would they kill it? I'm all for blocking them, but I'm not sure how could they kill Mastodon or other activitypub apps.

[–] Coelacanth 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

They'll kill it by having the largest userbase, and therefore the most and best content, and then finally defederating and forcing everyone to join Threads. At least that's what they'll most likely attempt to do. It remains to be seen whether they'll be successful. The EEE approach has been used before and is well documented. Read more on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

[–] necrxfagivs 3 points 2 years ago

I understand, but if they defederate the Fediverse will be what used to be, right? I'm pretty happy with how are Mastodon and Lemmy so far. I joined both during the Blackout and I don't mind less content but higher quality.

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