With all the talk about lemmy.ml defederating from threads I’ve been wondering what Aussie.zone’s stance is on the matter.
Threads is Facebook, there is no see how it goes. I thought everyone came to lemmy to get away from Facebook/reddit/twitter/instagram.
Defederating with for-profit instances should go without saying. They are motivated to financially exploit communities like this, at the cost of the users.
Tldr of what I’ve posted elsewhere; I’m undecided at this stage but leaning towards defederating. When more information is available I’ll make a post soliciting feedback, I don’t want to make a change like this without user feedback.
You are doing all the hard work to run this instance, I for one, respect and support any decisions you have to make.
I would prefer to stay on an instance that is federated with Threads; The whole point of federation is to interact with other instances, regardless of who runs them, as long as they don’t push offensive content (spam, hate, worse).
If Threads does not behave in a respectful manner to smaller instances (and all instances are going to be smaller than Threads) they should be blocked.
Right now though, I support a “suck it and see” approach. If we (you, the server, other users) are not enjoying the experience with Threads, block them and walk away from them.
