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my take on it is that i am completely against any kind of bridging between the platforms. i do think the fediverse in general is in danger, by being a victim of the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy
as many on lemmy, i use this platform because of its decentralized, open-source, not-for-profit nature, and think the whole fediverse community would be in jeopardy if we don't act
Exactly. I'm almost always against defederation, but the risk of EEE is why I'm in favor of preemptively defederating.
would like to had this more informed and well articulated take on why federation with Threads would be bad
And that is why I am voting to defed.
Defederation is meaningless, what matters is the dev side. Federating doesn't give them anything they couldn't get other ways for slightly more effort. The problems come if you allow contributions the greater community doesn't want to the code itself.
My bigger concern is content being overwhelmed by a flood of accounts that have a different online culture from what has grown and is still developing here.
I'm less concerned about the culture aspect, but there's probably some room to improve how federation works at a technical level so smaller instances aren't crushed if someone subscribes to large communities.
This feels like an uninformed take. Have you interacted with people on Mastodon via a Lemmy instance? They're clueless about the fact that they are replying to a forum post or that there's more than one thread of the conversation going on that most people can see and interact with. The conversations tend to be awkward.
it seems they are already testing the integration