Fediverse

Can small instances handle the traffic that Threads will be generating? I imagine small instances may get overwhelmed by bandwidth / cpu constraints, due to not having the budget that Meta has. Smaller instances that get bogged down might find people migrating to Threads simply because it will be able to handle the load.

Why would the most active lemmings stay on meta owned and controlled instances?

If an instance does off because Meta won't defederates from it, then it probably would have died off anyway.

I get all the hate for meta and zuck, and I agree that they would only do so for their own commercial benefit, but I don’t think we should defederate without seeing what federating means. Everyone here is instinctively panicking and running around like headless chickens without seeing what it would actually entail.

Threads is like mastodon. If federating with threads only means that threads users can participate in lemmy, I see that as an advantage for us.

If we were a mastodon instance, this conversation would be very different.

I, personally, do not want to be defederated from Threads. I want to follow some of the key news orgs and political figures who haven’t made the move over to Mastodon. For me, it can be the best of both worlds. I can get the content I want and maintain the level of privacy that I want.

Imagine what the fediverse will be like when 90 year old daisy gets on it.

The instances defederating Meta will shrink and collapse into their own seperate Defediverse. The debate shows the risk of so many hobbyist instances and admins powertripping their view who the users are allowed to talk to, that a corporation is perhaps more reliable. It hurts the users, hampers communication channels and people will flock more to the Mainfediverse further accelerating more power to fewer instances.

If you were looking for a network seperated from the outside general world, you perhaps should have joined a closed instance, network and forum. It goes against all what the Fediverse tries to be, a multi-purpose communication tool across communities, corporations and cultures with the possibility to create seperated and shielded communities.

What is Signal?

If you don't federate with them, people will simply just go there instead of here because a larger user base.