I know that many people are concerned about “Threads” privacy policy and are all screaming “WE WILL BLOCK THREADS”. I honestly can’t see how it’s going to gather any personal information since Lemmy, mastodon etc. doesn’t collect any information at all. Like, how can you gather information about user, if he doesn’t have any information about himself. Sure, Threads will collect info about its users, that’s obvious, but I think it’s a bad idea to just block it from the start
Neither am I. But universal pre-emptive defederation just cuts to the end game without any kind of fight. Meta users won’t even notice if/when they defederate because they never knew about us in the first place. And defederated instances will lose users to Meta because some people use social media in ways that only work well with bigger networks.
I’m all for some instances saying they want their networks to stay small and users who prefer it that way should have somewhere to go. But users who want a bigger network should have better options than signing up with Meta.
Kinda depressing because it’s only a matter of time before it happens with lemmy/kbin. Personally after the way reddit behaved after the API business, I was just happy I could go somewhere away from this corporate anti user atmosphere.
I mean, it’s plain obvious you can’t run a single service that can handle twitter or reddit levels of users without trying to get some money back. But you can have hundreds, or thousands of hobbyist size instances that spread this load. I think it’s a nice escape personally (looking at the traffic my instance gets, I do wonder how this would scale to real reddit numbers though).
But, the majority of people won’t think like that (and that’s not a criticism), they will go where the people are. Large companies with marketing budgets that are pre-established in social media will get the users.