• Steve@communick.news
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    11 months ago

    pick an instance that plans to defederate with them and you’re golden.

    That’s not how this works. This is a threat to the concept of the fediverse. It doesn’t matter what instance any of us picks.

    Threads already has hundreds of millions of users. Once they activate ActivityPub, they will be hundreds of times larger than the rest of the Fediverse combined. Instantly we will be a tiny minority of the users of this platform. That will give Meta unimaginable influence over this platform and technology.

    I’m not sure I can spell it out more clearly.

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      11 months ago

      No, that’s literally how this works.

      If you don’t like an ActivityPub participant you block it. It’s in the architecture.

      And given the current fediverse is already a tiny fraction of total social media activity, if a bunch of anti-Threads instances hive off to form their own fediverse subgroup, it’ll basically be a no-op from their perspective. They’ll just keep talking to each other off in a little corner by themselves just like they’re doing today. That’s kinda the whole damn point of a federated architecture.