I’ve seen a lot of discussion about Threads around the fediverse and I believe our main instance community has had a few large discussions about it (here’s a recent one).
I didn’t see an Agora discussion post, so I’m making one.
Can we all discuss our opinions on whether we want this instance to remain federated with Threads or not and share our reasons? I’d appreciate it!
As I understand defederation, it only blocks their content from showing up here. But not the other way around.
Everything posted here, every comment, vote, etc. is completely public and anyone can collect that data. So the argument that Meta is scraping data therefore we should defederate is nonsensical.
It is too soon to defederate with Meta, and it’s extremely reactionary and ineffective if the sole motivation is to hurt Meta or protect our data. Defederation accomplishes none of that. It only makes communities on Lemmy look immature and capricious by defederating from a company along the rationale of FACEBOOK BAD.
If I understand it, it would prevent our content from automatically propagating over there (our server doesnt send content). But if they want to make another stealth instance and farm the content from there they could.