https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Many of us do not trust Facebook and anything it is associated with or swallows up.
EDIT:
"Instagram head Adam Mosseri said "
““Soon, you’ll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, such as Mastodon. They can also find people on Threads using full usernames, such as @mosseri@threads.net.””
“We’re committed to building support for ActivityPub, the protocol behind Mastodon, into this app. We weren’t able to finish it for launch given a number of complications that come along with a decentralized network, but it’s coming,” he said.
“If you’re wondering why this matters, here’s a reason: you may one day end up leaving Threads, or, hopefully not, end up de-platformed. If that ever happens, you should be able to take your audience with you to another server. Being open can enable that.”
If they have any access to data through federation they could have just quitely made a small instance and stolen all the data. So while I 100% won’t be creating an account over there, and might block the instances myself, I don’t see the need to proactively do it.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
This doesn’t make the argument you think it does. This is an argument against Threads implementing ActivityPub. Everyone is complaining that it’ll be terrible content. And Google didn’t just do what Meta is doing. Google worked because they had their own ecosystem and had everyone join it. This article lacks a lot of the context involved and was just “big tech company joined a federated place and then left it and that killed that place.” That’s hardly the case. It’s more Google offering a different system. It would have happened even if they didn’t join XMPP. Apple hurt XMPP just as much.
Ya I hear that, and I have no interest in twitter or anything like it and don’t know how mastadon is used. So It could kill mastadon, but that could happen federated or not. If it does kill, You either die by the frustration when meta federatedly screws you, or by people just moving to threads. I don’t know which is more likely as I’m not versed in matadon.
But I see no utility to lemmy/kbin from federation with threads, so sure block it. I’m not seeing the doom for lemmy/kbin though, unless they make a clone of us next. Then I’d block them, because they could do the evil.