Hey peeps. By now you all heard that Zuck’s meta has started and in a defederated mode. This instance has already signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact and we plan to not help improve the value of Facebook, if and when they plan to open federation.

However I am thinking we can have a bit of fun beforehand.

You see, Threads is extremely sanitized in order to be “corporate friendly”. Naturally this makes their service as exciting as a bowl of plain porridge. However in order to keep their corporate partners happy, they are also extremely cautious about anything controversial and will likely defederate from anything too spicy.

So why not use this an an opportunity to make Threads defederate from us?

What would you say that we leave federation up, but use the opportunity to share with the larger threads populace some important information about filesharing? Sharing is caring after all and we have plenty of knowledge to give.

Naturally, if this doesn’t work, we will defed them ourselves soon after anyway, but I expect it will. What say you all?

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  • Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    I am inclined to agree - trying to weigh things up:

    Pros

    • Bragging rights to be able to say that we got Threads to defederate from us.
    • May hurt Threads’ popularity in the short term.
    • A warm fuzzy feeling from the above two points.
    • Umm… that’s it?

    Cons

    • Potentially undermines the impact the Anti-Meta Pact by not immediately defederating with them, actions are usually stronger in unison.
    • Related to the above, any instance federated with them, even if they then become hostile, adds to marketing numbers to allow Threads to legitimise themselves as being connected to X other communities.
    • The “Court of Public Opinion” probably won’t be too sympathetic to us if we spam mommy Meta’s new social network with goatse. I suppose that shouldn’t matter, but if we make ourselves too unpopular it may be a pain in the ass if more mainstream instances like lemmy.world defed from us due to making ourselves pariahs.
    • Potentially brings the Eye of Sauron upon us.

    Weight these how you will, and please let me know if there’s others to add to the list. To me the cons outweigh the pros, though I am willing to have my mind changed.-