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The main arguments for people to defederate are

  • “Embrace, extend, and extinguish” strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
  • A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
  • Defederating preventively costs nothing
  • Sunshine
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    911 hours ago

    We gotta avoid meta collecting data on the users of the fediverse.

    • xigoi
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      44 hours ago

      Oh no, imagine someone being able to see data that you publicly posted on the internet!

      • Blaze (he/him)OP
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        1211 hours ago

        That’s why I didn’t mention data collection in the reasons. Everything here can be parsed by thousands of instances. The issue is the EEE, and flooding the platform with millions of users coming from Facebook

        • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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          11 hours ago

          Literally all they would have to do is spin up a generic instance with like, one subscriber, federate, and then just kick back and wait. But yeah, fuck threads. .World should de-federate.

    • @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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      48 hours ago

      Question if that’s possible, especially if they really start a search engine, but yeah at least do not hand over the data on a golden plate