What does defederating from Meta's Threads.net actually accomplish?
What does defederating from Meta's Threads.net actually accomplish?
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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For the user experience, blocking meta just means that we won't have random people who are into baking and casual consumers of social media randomly stumble upon and
"ownership over my audience".
:vomit:
Yes among many many other things I don't want Facebook mouthbreathers ruining the nice open communities we have around here...
Guaranteed there will be an avalanche of spam and hate