Related post: https://eviltoast.org/post/833202

The current plan is to entirely defederate from Meta’s Threads.

Does anyone on eviltoast.org (or anyone who uses it for browsing) have any objections to defederating from Threads?

A few of the reasons to defederate:

• Exponentially more users compared to the current lemmyverse
• Expected reduction in quality of content, but dramatic increase in quantity
• Federation Traffic from Threads may overwhelm smaller instances, including ours
• Lemmy still has a lack of good mod tools
• Future possibility of “Embrace, extend, and extinguish” whether intentional or not
• Many people view lemmy and other federated platforms as a way to get away from giant coorporations

IMO the biggest reason to defederate is the amount of users and content that will be added to the network, I don’t think Lemmy/Mastodon/etc as a whole is prepared for that yet.

Edit 2023-12-22: threads.net is now on the blocked list. Please do leave a comment if you disagree with this decision!