I think it's dumb to defederate just because there's a big company behind it. With something like Threads We've got a gateway for people to get into decentralisation and the fediverse.

I brought up threads to my significant other the other day and it's the first time she was like "oh that's neat" when trying to get her involved with such things. I really want this activitypub backed stuff to become the next internet and I think it's really dumb to gatekeep it by defederating.

I love Lemmy, but I'm more likely to get friends and family onto threads than I am this or mastadon so if we defederate I guess I'll have to find some place else or bite the bullet and host my own private server.

I think it's incredibly important to federate with Meta! If we want the benefits of this tech to increase we need larger platforms to join in on the action.

AOL is ruining the Internet!

I favor user choice. The more options people have, the better. If users want to use threads what do I care? That's their problem. It's not our job to police what other people want, nor to "punish" them for making decisions we don't like.

Federate with them so long as the service meets standards for quality (no spam, no bot farms, no harassment, etc.). Some of those users will switch to other fediverse servers once they learn more about it.

I am completely against defederating

Facebook (meta) is going to try to buy market share into something that isn't monetizable. I don't see the point in defederating from them because they will just do it again and again secretly until one of their instances has some success. All you are really doing by defederating from them is setting up future scenarios where instances will start accusing each other of being meta shills, which would mostly just ruin the fediverse if everyone defederates from everyone. The existential threat to the fediverse is the fediverse itself. These companies are competing for eyeballs, and killing the fediverse would drive users to other monetized platforms. Sure you can defederate from the instances they admit they are running, but they and every other social media company are probably here already or will be soon. I wouldn't worry about it. Just keep meming and kicking out the Nazis.