Afaik, whenever an Activitypub instance has defederated from another it has always had to do with some combination of bad user behavior, poor moderation, and/or spam. Are the various instance admins who have decided to preemptively block threads.net simply convinced that these traits will be inevitable with it? Is it more of a symbolic move, because we all hate Meta? Or is the idea to just maintain a barrier (albeit a porous one) between us and the part of the Internet inhabited by our chuddy relatives?

(For my part, I’m working on setting up my own Lemmy and/or Pixelfed instance(s) and I do not currently intend to defederate.)

  • Marxine
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    181 year ago

    The biggest threat IMO is being exposed to Meta-curated content. They definitely use their algorithms to push narratives in their interest.

    Being exposed to their users is being exposed to them by proxy.

    • CrimeDadOP
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      -11 year ago

      Don’t you think we already deal with them a lot afk?