- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
Threads are making gestures toward federating with ActivityPub. That opens for a ton of new fedi users, but also gives Meta leverage over the policies and access to user information on independent servers.
See the linked post for arguments in favour of defederating from threads.net altogether. My question is in the title, where does Leminal Space stand on this?
EDIT: The below information is no longer current. See the updated comment.
The current Defederation Policy is outlined here, and Threads doesn’t meet the criteria for defederation at this time. However, I want to be clear that I am no way a fan of Meta, their business model or their practices. I am sympathetic to many of the arguments for pre-emptive defederation and believe it will require further consideration going forward. I am open to putting defederation to a vote in the future.
My feeling is that we take a watch-and-act approach and see how things pan out after federation. There are a few reasons for this:
Ty for the update! I do think that meta has enough going on in threads for it to fail our ToS (e.g. unmoderated alt-right content) so I am not in full agreement of the “wait and see” approach; and additionally, as you mention, user level blocking doesn’t exactly do much for the data harvesting processes they’re infamous for. So I’d rather the preemptive block. But I am ok with a wait and see approach as long as we’re able to act fast as soon as they inevitably do another war crime or whatever 😅