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What are the odds meta doesn't make a ton of accounts to vote their way? Defederating meta/threads is not something that needs to be voted on when we know exactly what they will do to activitypub given the chance
I completely disagree that its not something worth voting, but I already seem to be in a minority ( or less vocal opinion), so...
AFAIK You're thinking "worth" as is "should the people's voices be heard". The other person is thinking "worth" as in "can we trust that the voices being heard are actually the people's voices and not a giant bot farm being used by Meta to skew the results in their favor?"
Fair enough, even if a far-fetched scenario in my opinion. There's a bit over estimated sense of how much the community is worth to Meta.
I kinda sorta agree? Like, I agree it's not likely but the problem is that it's VERY possible and (afaik) we have no good way of detecting if it happens or not.
So at that point it becomes a matter of opinion, whether you think it's a 1% chance Meta would do that, or a 25% chance, and at what point you say the chance is to high to risk it.