Afaik, whenever an Activitypub instance has defederated from another it has always had to do with some combination of bad user behavior, poor moderation, and/or spam. Are the various instance admins who have decided to preemptively block threads.net simply convinced that these traits will be inevitable with it? Is it more of a symbolic move, because we all hate Meta? Or is the idea to just maintain a barrier (albeit a porous one) between us and the part of the Internet inhabited by our chuddy relatives?

(For my part, I’m working on setting up my own Lemmy and/or Pixelfed instance(s) and I do not currently intend to defederate.)

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    Just to play devil’s advocate:
    There could be some downsides to defederating it too:

    • threads could be a gateway to bring more people into the rest of the fediverse in a user friendly way.

    • It might cause the rest of the fediverse outside of threads to be more fragmented if some defedarate it and some don’t.

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      Absolutely agree. The optimist in me wants to be excited for what this means and how this could impact the future of, well, the Internet.

      But then I remember this is Meta we’re taking about. They do not do things that are good for anyone but Meta. As someone who doesn’t use meta products, this brings concern.

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        This is such a blatantly obvious truth that I’m starting to suspect some users here are astroturfing, peddling this bullshit feigned naivety about the rampant unethical practices of FB/Meta. There’s enough history that we don’t need to question it or give Meta a chance.

        I’ve been working on building the !vans@lemmy.world community, but I may look into moving it to another instance if lemmy.world doesn’t change their mind on federating with Threads.

        Edit: I guess they’ve only stated their plan for Mastodon, which is wait and see.