Everywhere I look there are people advocating for defederation from this and that! Do you even understand what you’re suggesting? Do you get what’s the point of decentralized social media and activity pub?

This is supposed to be free and accessible for everyone. We all have brains and can decide who to interact with.

If meta or any other company manages to create a better product it’s just natural that people tend to use it. I won’t use it, you may not use it and it’s totally fine! It’s about having options. Also as Mastodon’s CEO pointed out there’s no privacy concern, everything stays on your instance.

Edit: after reading and responding to many comments, I should point out that I’m not against defederation in general. It’s a great feature if used properly. Problem is General Instances with open sign-ups and tens of thousands of users making decisions on par of users and deciding what they can and can not see.

If you have a niche or small community with shared and agreed upon values, defederating can be great. But I believe individual users are intelligent enough to choose.

  • Aesthesiaphilia
    5•1 year ago

    Defederating would pretty much cut off a lot of potential new users that want to see posts on Threads while also not wanting to have a Meta account and all the issues that come with it.

    Kinda the point, no? Kill Threads in the cradle by denying it access to the fediverse.

    • RxBrad
      3•1 year ago

      Threads already has over 10 million 30 million users who mostly haven’t even heard of the Fediverse.

      Nobody will kill it in its giant cradle by blocking from their few-thousand-user instance.

      • Aesthesiaphilia
        1•1 year ago

        If they don’t interact with the fediverse, it’s just another Instagram except worse than actual Instagram. It won’t gain popularity or become profitable.

        • RxBrad
          2•1 year ago

          I don’t know about profitability, but in one day it drew 4x as many users as Mastodon gained in 7 years.