Context
- List of instances defederating from Threads, the Meta microblogging platform: https://fedipact.veganism.social/
- At the moment, Threads have incomplete federation with Fediverse microblogging instances: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/
- Another meme about Threads: https://feddit.uk/post/18194873
- Threads does not currently federate with link aggregators (Lemmy, Piefed)
- Threads could work with the microblogging part of Mbin
The main arguments for people to defederate are
- "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
- A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
- Defederating preventively costs nothing
LW stance: https://lemmy.world/post/1274909?scrollToComments=true
You never mentioned instance blocking. Yeah, it's not a Lemmy thing and because of that it's a little wonky. Various front ends handle it differently.
It might be worth editing it into your comment for clarity. When you say "block tankies" it isn't immediately clear you mean blocking an instance because "tankies" can exist anywhere and "non-tankies" can exist on "tankie instances".
(I'm not trying to be a pedantic jerk, either. Sorry if it sounds like that. If it does sound like that then it's just the stress from the US election getting to me. ๐)
Also, I'd like to specifically mention that I'm sorry you got harassed. That sucks. ๐
Thank you - upvoted and edited as suggested.
I'm not sure what you mean by harassed. If you mean the downvotes, I had to look at the comment from another instance to even see them - my instance defederates from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, so downvotes from those sources don't show up (interestingly, on my instance, I see none at all - i.e. all of the downvoters are from known tankie instances ๐คฃ).
I want downvotes from people who's opinion I actually would respect - like if you felt it necessary to add them (which I can tell you didn't, bc I see none despite being able to talk to you:-) - but yeah, I don't need it from children (of whatever physical age) who refuse to see how being unkind to people is not the sole strategy that anyone could use in a conversation.
But if you mean you, then nah you good.:-) First, we all in the same boat there, and second, you explained it well.:-)