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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
 

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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

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[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Dang it I was on lemmy.wtf and that one has been down for days now. Now you’re telling me this one will get flooded with “tweets”? Do I have to pack up my shit again? We’ll see how bad it will get.

Edit: it’s up again. It is too unreliable though.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 4 points 8 months ago

Ah, great misread my instance 😄

[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've been here a year and I still don't get how lemmy works. lol

Apparently I'm on the world one. No idea what impact that has, I just remember it being the easiest to join

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

It's like email sort of. I'm on programming.dev. When I post this comment it will be sent to programming.dev. Asynchronously (but still fairly soon) lemmy.world will scrape it from programming.dev (this is called "federation"). When you log into lemmy.world your inbox will show you this message notification.

You never directly interact with any server other than your home instance.