A community index of servers added a new rule recently, that requires every participant to defederate from Threads. Some admins are unhappy.

Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
    8·
    8 months ago

    But you’re giving Meta the same selling point, right? Join Threads and see all the same content. There’s no point in going elsewhere then. It kinda goes both ways.

    You’re right that we don’t know what will happen. So it could just as well be that Threads would swallow the whole Fediverse and then if Threads blocks an instance, it’s like a death sentence for that instance. That’s the whole embrace, extend, extinguish.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      But you’re giving Meta the same selling point, right? Join Threads and see all the same content. There’s no point in going elsewhere then. It kinda goes both ways.

      Somewhat yes

      • I think Threads doesn’t need that selling point because of the other advantages that it has
      • I find that when X defederates with Y, and people want to see all the content, all else being equal they will pick Y. Usually that means that Y = “We are happy to have X, but they chose to leave”

      We saw a bit of that last July for how some people picked Lemmy instances

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
        6·
        8 months ago

        when X defederates with Y, and people want to see all the content, all else being equal they will pick Y

        Hmmm maybe? But I think that’s a misunderstanding from a lot of users. You don’t want to see all content, trust me. Defederating is not necessarily bad. In most cases, it’s healthy.

        • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Yep I agree with you there :) It’s a useful tool, and it’s great that we have the option