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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
  • Sunshine @lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    We gotta avoid meta collecting data on the users of the fediverse.

    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 hours ago

      Oh no, imagine someone being able to see data that you publicly posted on the internet!

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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      8 hours ago

      Question if that’s possible, especially if they really start a search engine, but yeah at least do not hand over the data on a golden plate