What are people’s thoughts on Threads?
I anticipate that we'll soon need to determine whether federating with threads aligns with the needs of our little instance.
From my perspective, I've yet to encounter a persuasive argument against doing so, particularly considering the straightforward process of defederation.
But I’m open to being educated on this matter.
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The practice of "embrace, extend, extinguish" comes to mind with this. If Lemmy becomes 90% Threads then Meta can make huge changes to the platform. This would be a bad outcome.
I do like the idea of companies being able to host their own instance and join Lemmy, but I can't imagine that going well until Lemmy is already strong on its own.
I'm happy to be defederated with them, but I also have my (pure speculation-based) doubts about the platform lasting long enough to make a difference.