Fediverse

Give them a taste and then defederate...

The good thing about the fediverse is that instances can choose with whom they want to federate.

In my opinion, there should always be choice and people with terrible opinions should be allowed to express them – just like others should be allowed to laugh, ignore and block them. Whether we like it or not, the fediverse includes everything from left-wing to right-wing extremists. But we can choose an instance which excludes all those unwanted posts, just like we'll be able to block surveillance corporate instances.

Ultimately I think I'll end up running two accounts

I respect if my Mastodon instance decides to defederate because of a legitimate threat from Facebook, given the company's consistently awful history.

There will also be some good people worth following who want to use FB's Threads for whatever reason. If I need to, I can use some special frontend or web browser version to read the content.

So whether we stay federated or not, at the end of the day it'll be ok as far as being able to see things from the people I care about.

In the meantime, I'm going to bring as many people over to the real Fediverse before people get settled into one or the other

This may be a cynical view, but even if that does happen, the core ActivityPub protocol will still be intact and at worst be relegated to a small community of tech nerds, which is to say, basically the status quo.

Isn't threadiverse already a term to specifically describe the kbin/lemmy/etc. style of fediverse service?

The trick is to always be faking empathy.

And I would assume he chose that picture too. It's not as bad at full size, at least he has some color to his skin and doesn't look like an alien methhead as much.

My stance is still a hard fuck no to Threads entering the fediverse.

Edit: My reasoning can be read in my old comment here. It's all still applicable in regard to meta/Threads federating.

There's no logical reason to give them the benefit of the doubt or have unrealistically positive expectations given their overwhelmingly consistent track record.

Oh there's hate, there are a lot of unreasonably, pro-threads upvotes and comments making the rounds.

That's OP's opinion and some users here, but I don't praise it and I don't think it will be good for fediverse in the future. People will start using Threads app since they can interact with other fediverse instance. And there will be more drama and more toxic content just like on fb, twitter, tiktok and ig.

This is even more concerning

I will consider to stop using lemmy..

What does this mean?

You will delete your account if... what, exactly?

If Meta can read things you post to Lemmy? They already can if they're so inclined; it's all indexable by anybody with a web crawler bot; robots.txt on lemmy.world doesn't even discourage it. If people can post to your favorite Lemmy communities from Threads? Don't expect many people to do that - there's enough UX mismatch it's an awkward experience from any microblogging software.