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Mastodon's Founder & CEO Gives His Thoughts on Meta's Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org)

submitted 1 year ago by CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I'm not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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[-] RxBrad@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I'm kind of bummed that so many people are stomping their feet and saying they don't want the big guy to find their little cabin in the woods.

If mas.to -- where I signed up for Mastodon -- defederates Threads, I'm just going to lose access to the vast population that will simply use that easiest means of joining the Fediverse.

Defederating is just going to chase droves of people off independent servers and into the arms of Zuck.

[-] g8phcon2@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

if they do, you can just folow them for here right? Or does lemmy.world have less features than kbin.social?

[-] RxBrad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe I'm completely misinterpreting it... but my impression is that if my Mastodon instance defederates Threads, then I cannot interact, in any way, with anyone on Threads from my account on the defederating instance.

I'm on mas.to. The admin already publicly stated that Meta invited them to talks. They declined. And they even blocked Meta's access to anything mas.to before Threads was even a thing. Defederation is probably a foregone conclusion there.