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Please defederate from threads.net (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by eatham@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won't be evil, but let's be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can't be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

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[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, as much as I like Lemmy. It's kind of stuck in a catch-22 situation.

The bigger it grows the more likely it is to be destroyed by "bad actors"

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago

Imo it depends on how it grows, especially how much decentralization it can preserve.

[-] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 7 points 2 years ago

Instances like Lemmy.world and lemmy.ml are a big threat to decentralisation, however threads would be at a whole new level

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Decentralization may be its biggest weakness. It requires too much overhead.

What happens when 100's of instances are stood up for the purpose of fragmenting or taking over? Or META just starts buying federated instances? The burden will fall on each individual instance owner to try and keep up. Ain't happening.

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wtf are you talking about? Decentralization is the one thing that separates the fediverse from existing social networks. It's the entire point of this whole endeavour. It's even what happens in your failure scenarios, because the problem with someone taking over everything is the centralization it introduces.

this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023

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