Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won’t be evil, but let’s be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can’t be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

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  • ParadoxvoidEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I think it’s really worth watching this Flipboard interview/podcast with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon.

    https://flipboard.video/w/cTBu4HusskGTuPBahqm6WY

    He sees it as a good thing, and I’m inclined to trust his judgement - it lets us share our ideals and culture with a broader audience, it lets us engage with a larger amount of content (if we want to), and we still have the power to block it at any point if we decide it’s a bad thing. Pre-emptive defederation takes the power out of users hands, only grants more power to large silicon valley corporations, and is self-defeating if the goal is to try to move to a federated web.

    Also, their federation is likely to have a near non-existent impact on aussie.zone, given we’re a link-aggregation platform and not a microblog like Mastodon or Kbin.