Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Would anything change on Lemmy, even if you federate with Threads?
You follow communities here on Lemmy, while on Threads you follow people. The only way for a Lemmy user to find a Threads user, would be looking for their username directly in the search bar.
In that sense, what does a Lemmy instance gain from defederating with Meta?
Nothing, it's the same virtue signalling I was sick of seeing on Reddit and it's people celebrating taking away the choice from other users.
These nonstop threads posts has soured my Lemmy experience after a month of being extremely active here.
At this stage it is only virtue signalling - the signal is that the larger lemmy community has no interest in interacting or co-operating with Facebook or other large anti-privacy organisations. It's that simple. You can always join a different server with different values, nobody has taken choice away from you.