I’ve gotten so tired of the non-stop reddit/lemmy/mastodon/threads drama I pulled the plug on all recurring donations for the foreseeable future. Thanks to threads the fedverse is starting the reddit style drama cycles and I’m pretty much over trying to sort through it.
I know I can block content, my concern is my refusal to donate to an outfit that supports meta or similar properties.
That’s a bit too simplistic. Defederation has many consequences, some subtle. It depends on personal preferences wether the sum is beneficial. Specifically, some people see it as an advantage to not see content coming from Threads, and not share theirs with Threads.
I’m doubtful, but maybe. We don’t have numbers on this.
We also don’t need to reach a consensus. Maybe there is demand for instances which are defederated and demand for instances which are federated. People can choose where to have an account (which includes the option to have more than one account), people can try to inform themselves about an instance’s policy, and they can try to influence an instance. This is all fine, fediverse working as intended.
I can foresee a situation where lots of lemmings will have two accounts.
Agree and understand that users don’t want to be flooded with Thread posts. I think until the user is able to block on their own, the main mastodon.social and lemmy should stay federated as most new users go there. If they don’t want to see threads, then they can move to one that defederated. But only until the users have the ability to block threads on their own, then it should be the users choice.
Works in both ways ;) Depends on personal preference. I would strongly prefer my instance (and instances I visit) to defederate Threads.