What to know about Threads
blog.joinmastodon.org
There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.

Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

  • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
    303·
    1 year ago

    I’m preemptively defederating from Threads. But I’m not necessarily opposed to refederating in the future, if Meta proves benevolent. Some bigger Mastodon admins are going with a wait and see approach, but as the sole admin of a small instance, I’d rather not have to rush to defederate if shit hits the fan.

    • AstralWeekends@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Seems reasonable to exercise caution. Plus, unless you have the means, it’d be a tough spot to deal with resource scaling without knowing what the volume of new traffic will look like.

    • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.winEnglish
      134·
      1 year ago

      As a small instance, defederating from Threads could do more harm than good. Denying users access to a potentially large amount of content could cause them to move on.

      If you’re concerned about them slurping your content, don’t be. They can just easily set up an instance at billjoejimbob.com and slurp it indirectly. They very likely already are.

      • tenth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        I doubt people joining small instances would miss any content from FB/Instagram/Threads/Twitter

        The content on reddit is huge but I cut the tie and happier with Lemmy.