[Discussion] What is our stance on federation with Threads? - eviltoast

I’ve seen a lot of discussion about Threads around the fediverse and I believe our main instance community has had a few large discussions about it (here’s a recent one).

I didn’t see an Agora discussion post, so I’m making one.

Can we all discuss our opinions on whether we want this instance to remain federated with Threads or not and share our reasons? I’d appreciate it!

  • 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1 year ago

    If a generic user is looking to create an account on an instance then they’d likely just default to the network that has 8 billion users rather than the one with 10 million.

    I think this is where you are losing me. A generic user coming in is not going to understand who is federated with who. They are just going to be looking at individual instance numbers. As we have seen already when they all went to lemmy.world because it was one of the largest