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What should we do about Threads? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by NineteenDoornails@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[-] asterzura@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In my opinion, the people that use Instagram and will potentially use Threads aren't the ones who will get into the Fediverse.

They will probably not even know that this exists in the app as it just puts you directly in threads.net.

Also, there's the option that this is just a 'trend thing' that will die in a week or two, probably because people won't get used to or due to legal problems (as it's already happening).

Edit: typo.

[-] mtnwolf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I dropped Instagram for Pixelfed a week or two ago. It's a small community, but friendly and nobody is trying to sell me anything lol.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Same could be said about fediverse in general. I thought there would be more action against reddit but seems the majority of people don't care.

[-] forvirreth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I use instagram on the daily (mostly lurking). It's very good for inspiration and updates in my hobby, which is a small community basically only on instagram. Due to how it all works and is set up its fairly impossible to move it elsewhere (for the time being).

I do like it here though, this is nice. Not gonna mess with threads at all, that's for sure.