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The fediverse is discussing if we should defederate from Meta's new Threads app. Here's why I probably won't (for now).

(Federation between plume and my lemmy instance doesn't work correctly at the moment, otherwise I would have made this a proper crosspost)

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

"It forces them to play by the rules"

They will play by the rules because that's the Embrace step of EEE, not because anyone forced them to.

[–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you want Facebook to do to us what Google did to XMPP???

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

[–] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Yup they can mess up the fediverse in the near future

https://fabulous.systems/posts/2023/06/meta-is-a-danger-to-the-fediverse/

https://fediversereport.com/meta-plans-on-joining-the-fediverse-the-responses/

And there's Google's with their new privacy policy states that it can use publicly available data to help train its AI models

https://www.engadget.com/googles-updated-privacy-policy-states-it-can-use-public-data-to-train-its-ai-models-095541684.html

They only cares about money and unlimited growth.

[–] tenth@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its your choice as instance owner to do that

Visit https://fedipact.online/ to see a list of instance owners who will defederate their instance from Threads

Heads up: its a long list