Moved to Fediverse to get away from the data hoarding and selling that those types of companies partake in. Really hope most instances will defederate from threads and prevent Meta from collecting more data.

I’m interested in seeing how the enshittification of Threads will unfold. It’s all super neat and cozy right now with a clean UI, no ads, not many sign up nags, and such. When they build up their userbase, we’ll see how the platform devolves.

Can somebody explain me exactly how defederating them would give us a different outcome?

I’m genuinely curious.

Meta couldn’t give less fucks about 100k users on lemmy, they are targeting people that isn’t and will never use nor understand what the fediverse is.

You keep them out, good. They don’t care, they just want to fill their own bucket with stuff that is outside anyway

Twitter people going to threads is completely independent from anything in the fediverse. Those people won’t even notice any difference if they are federated or not.

They are in for the brand and the fomo, not the content

I’d delete my account and join an instance that would defederate from corporations

This is how it should work. I don’t want to have to sign up on every different service. If people I want to follow choose to post stuff there that I want to read, I can do so from my Mastodon account.

The instance I’m on has already preemptively defederated/blocked Threads.

And is going to be defederated by everyone… They should put a hard-coded Meta blocker into activityhub…