Fediverse

If you don't federate with them, people will simply just go there instead of here because a larger user base.

What a huge piece of FUD this is. Threads is already way larger then the Fediverse is. They don't need to come here and try and take users. You are afraid that Meta will hoard the content and users from the Fediverse but they are already doing that. Threads doesn't connect now so it's all there's. Why would they connect to just disconnect later? Why is the answer to being afraid of getting disconnected in the future to never connect? This makes no sense. It's complete fear mongering.

This post feels like fearmongering...

Why would Meta care about small instances? I feel like Meta would only see the big instances as pontential threat.

Honestly, this could actually be an opportunity for fediverse. I don't want Meta to harvest my data, so I would never make an account there. However I am interested in content/people from Meta and I can follow that from fediverse. I believe there is large group of people who think the same way and they may join fediverse if they haven't already done that.

Better explained here: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

1. I mean, we can all defederate. You're TELLING us to defederate. What makes ours ethical and their unethical??

2. They cannot make our instances slower. Your browser / the server doesn't make any requests to threads when you load a page on your instance. They could send notifications less frequently, but so what.

But... what kind of Camel milk do you like?

Could Threads essentially cause a kinda DDOS attack onto other instances or bloating other instances with data?

I would imagine that the kind of people willing to use Threads were already not going to sign up for a "small instance", and a lot of admins of various sized instances have already agreed to defederate regardless https://fedipact.online/

are you peppy from osu! ?