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What does this mean? I don't get it.
Basically Zucc knows that fediverse (Mastodon/Lemmy) is a serious competitor, so instead of fighting it - he joined it. And named it "Threads" or smth (I don't know and I don't want to know)
The problem is that everyone bullied Zucc and "dropped him from their friend circles". No one wants to be friends with Zucc. ๐คท๐
The dangerous part is that he can start bribing admins of large instances to federate Threads. I'm not sure how one would practically defend against something like this. The only way I can think of would be for an admin to be so ideologically opposed to Meta that they would refuse even $1m to federate. But such people are rare.
I mean, you could create your own instance and not have to worry.
That could help. But then we need:
The way I understand it: -you are somewhat at the mercy of the instance where you have your account(aka your home instance) -if your home instance defederates assholes.com, you can still see their posts but cannot vote or comment on assholes.com -you can get around this by creating a second account on assholes.com. You'll just have to remember to switch accounts
(Where is that guy on YouTube to explain this stuff)
I thought defederation meant that you wouldn't be able to see the posts either? For example, quite a few Lemmy instances defederated lemmynsfw.com because they didn't want their users seeing NSFW content.