I’ve seen a lot of discussion about Threads around the fediverse and I believe our main instance community has had a few large discussions about it (here’s a recent one).
I didn’t see an Agora discussion post, so I’m making one.
Can we all discuss our opinions on whether we want this instance to remain federated with Threads or not and share our reasons? I’d appreciate it!
I’d say to not defederate (for now), they are playing our own game so let’s allow them to do so.
I, for one, have no intention of ever using Threads, and if we Federate, I’ll never have to. But If most lemmy instances defederate from them, however, in a few months/years if it grows to be popular and all our family/friends use it we’ll all be installing that dreadful app on our phones and be all happy pleasing our social network overlords, just like we did for other Meta protects like facebook and instagram.
Who here never had an account at some point in time? If the fediverse was a thing back in the day, we’d never had to.
Start using something because our family is using it?
Friend, you are sorely mistaken.
What I’m saying is if the only way to contact certain people is on a certain platform (this already happens with whats app and messenger) then a lot more people are going to have it, even if you’re willing to ditch people who don’t use open source platforms, a lot of other people won’t and that’s going to increase the numbers and power that platform has. I have telegram but I only talk to 1-2 people there because no one has it, if I could talk to “what’s app contacts” through telegram/matrix I would not have Even an whats app account.