Context

The main arguments for people to defederate are

  • “Embrace, extend, and extinguish” strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
  • A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
  • Defederating preventively costs nothing

LW stance: https://lemmy.world/post/1274909?scrollToComments=true

  • OpenStars@piefed.social
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    2 hours ago

    Thank you - upvoted and edited as suggested.

    I’m not sure what you mean by harassed. If you mean the downvotes, I had to look at the comment from another instance to even see them - my instance defederates from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, so downvotes from those sources don’t show up (interestingly, on my instance, I see none at all - i.e. all of the downvoters are from known tankie instances 🤣).

    I want downvotes from people who’s opinion I actually would respect - like if you felt it necessary to add them (which I can tell you didn’t, bc I see none despite being able to talk to you:-) - but yeah, I don’t need it from children (of whatever physical age) who refuse to see how being unkind to people is not the sole strategy that anyone could use in a conversation.

    But if you mean you, then nah you good.:-) First, we all in the same boat there, and second, you explained it well.:-)