• FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org
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    7 months ago

    Just following up to see if you plan to defederate from Threads :-). There is no viable reason not to do this that I can think of. I hope you’ll do this so we can preserve the quality of this instance. Although if the entire fediverse gets rekt from this then idk if it even matters anymore :-/.

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      7 months ago

      👋 I am leaning towards defederating w/ Threads. Lemmy 0.19.0 does have a feature to block instances at the user level, and I was thinking that might help when we upgrade. But with so many users on threads (compared to lemmy), I don’t think it’d be hard for threads to overwhelm everything.

      I’m not even sure what sort of load impact it will have on servers. I can imagine a lot of instances will accidentally ddos themselves just by following stuff on threads.

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        7 months ago

        Haha oh God. It should be interesting for sure. I can understand the argument for not defederating but my largest concern would be protecting the users from Meta’s data harvesting. They’ll likely harvest everything from Lemmy that they can if they find that a decent amount of their users subscibe to Lemmy stuff.