Afaik, whenever an Activitypub instance has defederated from another it has always had to do with some combination of bad user behavior, poor moderation, and/or spam. Are the various instance admins who have decided to preemptively block threads.net simply convinced that these traits will be inevitable with it? Is it more of a symbolic move, because we all hate Meta? Or is the idea to just maintain a barrier (albeit a porous one) between us and the part of the Internet inhabited by our chuddy relatives?
(For my part, I’m working on setting up my own Lemmy and/or Pixelfed instance(s) and I do not currently intend to defederate.)
Regardless of what they MAY do, let’s take a look at what they HAVE done and ask ourselves if these are actions that are acceptable in our community.
I say that disseminating misinformation and propaganda around elections in the US and elsewhere is bad and fuck ‘em.
They’ve also carried out experiments manipulating people’s feeds to make them happier or depressed…
Not only did they play a crucial role in election misinformation, but they’re largely responsible for the radicalization and violence in the alt right.
We know they mine/monetize all your data they can…
Fuck FB/Meta/Threads. People are going to bitch about reddit and them simp for Meta? Give me a break…