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While i think more people learning of the fediverse could be potentialy beneficial, I also think that we should un-federate with them since corporations are the biggest danger to it. they used EEE(Embrace,Extend,Extinguish) tactics before and they will probably use them here as well. not to mention the blatant privacy risks it will bring. I'm not the only one who thinks not de-federating with them is a bad idea I think this comment explains it better than i could have: https://lemmy.world/comment/6040940

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[–] SpaceTurtle224 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I made a profile icon for those also in support of this:

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most important part of this imo is the fact that whatever lemmy.world does will have major consequences to the fediverse since its the largest instance by far.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

lemmy.world may have an impact on lemmy, but there are a lot of much bigger mastodon instances. in fact, lemmy.world is #9, and every other instance ahead of it is mastodon (except 1 which is misskey)

https://fedidb.org/network

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, I only thought in terms of lemmy in that moment. Thanks for the correction.

[–] AbouBenAdhem 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plan on defederating with them, but wait until they actually do something that violates fediverse standards (which shouldn’t take long). That’ll raise visibility for the issue with the media and threads users, especially if it’s part of the same news cycle when threads is touting its implementation of the protocol.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh I think it's a stronger signal if everyone backs away to start. It's not like the parent company is unfamiliar and deserves benefit of the doubt.

[–] AbouBenAdhem 2 points 1 year ago

To whom are you sending the signal, though?

For most people who don’t already know about the fediverse (i.e, most potential threads users), the first time the concept crosses their awareness threshold will be when threads finally connects and the media start running stories about it. Any attempt to send a signal before that point will be invisible to them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's the problem, is they won't violate anything at first. Embrace, extend, extinguish.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

several instances already did back when Threads first launched – you can check your own instance by going to https://your.instance.name/instances and searching for threads.net

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

am already leave reddit

[–] letsmakeafriendship 4 points 1 year ago

Leaving lemmy.world if it doesn't defederate from threads. Fuck Meta.

[–] Touching_Grass 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can we be more oblivious to marketing teams. I hope we are more accepting of PR for various IP creating positive only encouraging spaces that will ensure any honest opinions get minced and purged. I would also enjoy seeing websites like buzzfeed using the place to repost questions every few months so they have new material to write another click bait article. Also college kids who buy bulk products off alibibi and create posts pretending like they discovered this cool new thing like a lamp that puts stars on your wall while providing all the electronic safety standards the back allays of Chinese factories offer. Is it not all our responsibility to ignore these corruption's of our spaces and ask 'wow that's amazing, where can I buy it' If threads can bring us this attention I say why not.