Fediverse

we shouldn't do anything.

Isn't the whole promise of the fediverse that whatever the policies of one instance are, that doesn't necessarily affect all the other instances, and each can do their own thing. If an instance doesn't want to accept traffic from threads, good for them. But to try to organize a fediverse-wide response to threads seems a whole lot like the centralization the fediverse is supposed to not be.

Fuck em. Burn this place to the ground before we dance with the devil.

I have already blocked threads on my household instance. I decided that I don't want to have to trust major instance admins to take the same things seriously that I do.

Another vote to defederate here.

Threads is exactly showing the biggest problem with anything Fediverse. It's simpler for the user so it will be accepted. The amount of people I've already seen join is huge compared to mastodon.

Given that everything right now is just speculation - I say sit tight, observe what actually happens and respond appropriately if it does start to go wrong. Defederation is very easy, we can do it when we need to

Here's Eugen Rotchko's thoughts.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

threads will never federate.

What’s the DNS I need to block to never inadvertently get sent to anything Threads related?

Same thing we do about reddit. They are free to do their own thing in their own corner as long as they don't bring us into it.

I think defederation isn't the solution. Am I dumb in thinking this could actual have a mutual benefit?

Just an example: I will never use Threads, but if I can communicate with them from my Mastodon account, I would like to have that option.