There isn’t really a thought out stance on it so far.
I know a lot of instances are planning on preemptively blocking or defederating from threads, but I haven’t decided if that’s overkill or not.
I think it depends on if it ever actually happens, and also whether it ends up causing any issues. It probably won’t get blocked by default, but we also don’t want to get defederated and siloed from other instances.
What are your thoughts on it?
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 :-/.
👋 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.
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.
