How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
I can understand the appeal of growing numbers but I don’t think the risks outweigh the rewards. Unlimited growth is unsustainable anyway. We can exist without Meta. Meta is a poison pill that will eventually monopolize the fediverse if it has its way. This will not be the first time they killed off a decentralized platform.
will be “Watching Like a Hawk, with our Fingers Over the Block Button.” We will NOT be pre-emptively taking a “Fediblock as a Frist Strike” position.
His reasonings are much better supported compared to Eugene’s. I my opinion he seemed to downplay EEE without any defence mechanism
In my personal opinion, I support defederation until Meta can prove they won’t hurt fediverse. My points are
Fediverse, especially Lemmy is growing so well without Threads/reddit. We don’t need their contents. People who do would have stayed with reddit already. Having said that, why would we want to federate in the first place
The whole reason Lemmy is where it is today is due to people fed up with reddit’s. They’ve lost trust on Big Tech.
Imagine Meta set up an Lemmy instance. Are we willing to give them for free all the mineable data they would not have otherwise from scrapping? What if they use all that extra data to better train their AI and sell more targeted ads
On an instance like aussie.zone, our profile is likely linked to a city/location. I wonder how many of us set up accounts here just for this instance. I know I do, where i have another account elsewhere for my hobbies, interest groups so that I cannot be traced easily. With that in mind, people can easily create an account elsewhere to follow threads if they really want. Multi account is already supported in app such as Memmy
I can understand the appeal of growing numbers but I don’t think the risks outweigh the rewards. Unlimited growth is unsustainable anyway. We can exist without Meta. Meta is a poison pill that will eventually monopolize the fediverse if it has its way. This will not be the first time they killed off a decentralized platform.
I’m not interested in growing user numbers. But I am interested in having access to the content those users generate.
I am leaning towards defederating Meta… but for now am taking a more “wait and see” approach.
Thank you for being transparent. Your plan seem to align with that of some major mastodon’s instance owners, as they agreed with this guy https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/07/03/instagram-threads-and.html
His reasonings are much better supported compared to Eugene’s. I my opinion he seemed to downplay EEE without any defence mechanism
In my personal opinion, I support defederation until Meta can prove they won’t hurt fediverse. My points are
Fediverse, especially Lemmy is growing so well without Threads/reddit. We don’t need their contents. People who do would have stayed with reddit already. Having said that, why would we want to federate in the first place
The whole reason Lemmy is where it is today is due to people fed up with reddit’s. They’ve lost trust on Big Tech.
Imagine Meta set up an Lemmy instance. Are we willing to give them for free all the mineable data they would not have otherwise from scrapping? What if they use all that extra data to better train their AI and sell more targeted ads
On an instance like aussie.zone, our profile is likely linked to a city/location. I wonder how many of us set up accounts here just for this instance. I know I do, where i have another account elsewhere for my hobbies, interest groups so that I cannot be traced easily. With that in mind, people can easily create an account elsewhere to follow threads if they really want. Multi account is already supported in app such as Memmy
We can federate later if we really need to
My opinion would be to defederate and take a “wait and see” approach to federate if they behave themselves. :p