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What should we do about Threads? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The EEE argument is a red herring at the moment. Sure, in the future, Meta and others could get clever in ways we can't imagine right now, but currently it's a "sky is falling" kind of threat. As it currently stands, the path from Threads launching to "Meta killing the fediverse" has all the logical progression as the Underpants Gnomes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Feels more like a Chekhovs gun than a red herring at the moment but I hear what you're saying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right. It's all FUD at this point. There's nothing stopping servers from federating for now and then disconnecting later if an actual issue comes up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is like the boiling frog analogy. Its never easy to get consensus on whether the latest insult is too much and so inertia holds everyone in place until its too late.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't need to get consensus though. The Fediverse isn't a monolith and you can change servers if you feel the one you're on isn't working for you anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. As the old saying goes: Divided we stand, united we fall.

No, wait...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the point of using something that's federated if we all have to do things the same way? Sounds like you just want a centralized site where you get to make the rules.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well we they could just be centralized in their own decentralized instance lol