I’ve seen a lot of comments suggesting Threads should be pre-emptively defederated by Lemmy/kbin instances if it tries to join us. I’m a bit confused what the problem would be. When Meta does its usual corporate bullshit over at Threads, how would that hurt a user or community based on Lemmy.world? If anything, wouldn’t it give the fediverse a boost if Threads users start discovering communities outside of Meta’s control?

I presume I’m missing something, as you can probably tell I don’t fully understand how Lemmy, Threads or federation all work.

  • @Today
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    11 year ago

    They take everything! I can say, “We need a new couch,” and suddenly furniture advertisements are thrown at me. Have to remember that we are the product. The platform is just the magic trick that distracts us while the pickpockets strip the crowd.