[Vote] Should we pre-emptively defederate Threads?
[Vote] Should we pre-emptively defederate Threads?
Threads will be implementing federation in the near future and many instances have been discussing whether they should be pre-emptively defederated to protect the fediverse. See below for our local discussion thread, which will remain active until this vote is complete.
Given that this is a time-sensitive issue and it's the holiday season, we decided to initiate the vote a few days early to make sure everyone gets a chance to vote. The vote will be tallied on Friday, December 29th.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/11011288
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Vote by commenting either yes/aye/oui or nay/no/non
Any further discussion should be posted in the thread linked above
Additional Context/Discussions
41% of instances have blocked Threads
Extensive discussion at Fediverse@lemmy.world
For the hard of hearing
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VOTE RESULT
In favor (aye/oui/yes) : 200 votes
Against (nay/non/no) : 55 votes
Sh.itjust.works has voted in favor of preemptively defederating Threads.
Thank you for your participation, and happy holidays to everyone!
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No
In the end it doesn't really matter? I suppose I can still send people links to things here regardless if I want them to see it, they'd just be unable to interact with it from a threads account.
The fear is that they will start off by using our content to flesh out their own product, get everybody used to the surge in content, and piece by piece add new features that don't federate properly until it's a totally separate thing and you can no longer see their things but they can see ours. It's not the first time this strategy has been used to kill foss communication projects.
That said, lemmy is probably at much lower risk than most forms of social media, because I don't care if my friends use the same forums as me. Mastodon instances need to be much more careful than lemmiea imo.
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