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What's the stance on Threads thingy from Meta on this instance? (eviltoast.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

👋 I am leaning towards defederating w/ Threads. Lemmy 0.19.0 does have a feature to block instances at the user level, and I was thinking that might help when we upgrade. But with so many users on threads (compared to lemmy), I don't think it'd be hard for threads to overwhelm everything.

I'm not even sure what sort of load impact it will have on servers. I can imagine a lot of instances will accidentally ddos themselves just by following stuff on threads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Haha oh God. It should be interesting for sure. I can understand the argument for not defederating but my largest concern would be protecting the users from Meta's data harvesting. They'll likely harvest everything from Lemmy that they can if they find that a decent amount of their users subscibe to Lemmy stuff.