I’ve seen a lot of comments suggesting Threads should be pre-emptively defederated by Lemmy/kbin instances if it tries to join us. I’m a bit confused what the problem would be. When Meta does its usual corporate bullshit over at Threads, how would that hurt a user or community based on Lemmy.world? If anything, wouldn’t it give the fediverse a boost if Threads users start discovering communities outside of Meta’s control?

I presume I’m missing something, as you can probably tell I don’t fully understand how Lemmy, Threads or federation all work.

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    1 year ago

    Meta doesn’t need Lemmy. They don’t care about Lemmy. Last time I checked they already had 10M+ users

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      They don’t need us, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want us.

      We’re a market as much as any other, and by them explicitly saying they want to support ActivityPub (Mastodon in particular), they clearly do see us.

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            1 year ago

            For me That defeats the basic principles of the whole Fediverse. If a single instance gets very big and then corporatized, then what will happen? Will they get defederated too? Then at that point it’s just a bunch of seperate web forums. If Fediverse gets big, corporations will come sooner or later. Lemmy/Kbin need to survive on its own. Also current situation should not be compared to xmpp. From the article it would seem that they didn’t had a userbase large enough to sustain themselves which is not the current situation with Fediverse. Google tried EEE with AMP also and failed.

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          Maybe it isn’t the best solution long-term, but if we fully embrace them they will cannibalise us.

          It’s silly to be optimistic when we’ve already seen EEE in action.

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      But they don’t have me. I don’t want a Facebook and want to stay the hell away from Facebook.