I didn’t come to a new service just to see it get taken over by the corporate beasts who ruined the internet in general, and I am sure as hell am not going to use an instance that doesn’t care about its users.

I think the admin of this instance might have been paid off to federate with Threads, it being one of the most popular.

So, I am giving y’all 24 hours to defederate and if the Lemmy.world admins don’t, I’m-a bounce and close down my subs behind me

That is all

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    Feel free to do so and run your own server. Blackmailing is childish and non productive by the way. I’m sure most instances will defederate from threads over time but they are looking to federate with mastadon instances more than lemmy/kbin.

    Anyway thanks for participating and best of luck.

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      I support op. We must have zero contact or involvement with anything connected to zucc, musk or evil greedy shits. Ban threads forever.

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        The entire point of the fediverse is that there is no “we”. Or rather, you can decide which “we” you want to engage with. Look at behaw. When world started exploding with growth, the beehaw instance defederated because they wanted to preserve a smaller community.

        I will never sign up for Threads or any other Meta service. However, if the fediverse allows me to interact with my friends and colleagues who have without having to give up all my data to do so, that’s a win in my book.

        So feel free to go start or join an instance that defederates from Threads. Just stop expecting everyone else to do so.

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          You don’t give much thought to what Threads wants to do to the fediverse, and your concern is only what benefits yourself in the short term.

          Just be aware of that. Many of us older folks have seen this process happen over and over. Threads will start to dictate what activitypub will be, and once it has many millions of users, it gives them power to influence the entire protocol.

          And if people don’t like that, they will have to come up with a new protocol and start over again. Which is exactly the cycle we are constantly experiencing.

          I think we should not let them into our instances. Keep them as a corporate funded version of the fediverse, separate from the ones run by individuals.

          But since each instance owner is free to do what they want, I estimate that many will federate with threads and suffer the consequences in the future.

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            Since you mentioned us “older folks” I can’t help but feel this is similar to the day AOL joined the Internet.

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        This is what pisses me off.

        They’re guaranteed go do something stupid, that’s when you ban them.

        They can’t help themselves, but you can’t do things without reasons. Give them 5 minutes to prove themselves what we know they are.

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        I support defederating from threads too, I despise FB and anything they touch but blackmailing is not going to do anything in the case of OP and it is the wrong way to go about it . I’m on lemmy.world myself and when the time comes I will have the choice to make depending on what this instance does. We all have that choice, that is the benefit of federation.

        This is why we should defederate https://infosec.pub/post/400702