Everywhere I look there are people advocating for defederation from this and that! Do you even understand what you’re suggesting? Do you get what’s the point of decentralized social media and activity pub?
This is supposed to be free and accessible for everyone. We all have brains and can decide who to interact with.
If meta or any other company manages to create a better product it’s just natural that people tend to use it. I won’t use it, you may not use it and it’s totally fine! It’s about having options. Also as Mastodon’s CEO pointed out there’s no privacy concern, everything stays on your instance.
Edit: after reading and responding to many comments, I should point out that I’m not against defederation in general. It’s a great feature if used properly. Problem is General Instances with open sign-ups and tens of thousands of users making decisions on par of users and deciding what they can and can not see.
If you have a niche or small community with shared and agreed upon values, defederating can be great. But I believe individual users are intelligent enough to choose.
who wanted to defederate from meta only because they personally don’t like meta content
There’s two separate issues here. There’s some people demanding their instance defederate from others because it had one or two nsfw communities, or one poster on one thread in one community said something they don’t like. These people are ridiculous and need to touch grass.
Then there’s some people demanding defederation from Meta because of how demonstrably horrible they are.
This thread is conflating the two, possibly on purpose. The former group is ridiculous, the latter group is sensible.
This right here.
It’s not about disliking some community that someone personally disagrees with for whatever reason, it’s about trying to not have the entire system taken down by a vastly powerful corporate entity with an almost endless track record of being consistently malignant.