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Threads will be implementing federation in the near future and many instances have been discussing whether they should be pre-emptively defederated to protect the fediverse. See below for our local discussion thread, which will remain active until this vote is complete.

Given that this is a time-sensitive issue and it's the holiday season, we decided to initiate the vote a few days early to make sure everyone gets a chance to vote. The vote will be tallied on Friday, December 29th.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/11011288

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Vote by commenting either yes/aye/oui or nay/no/non

Any further discussion should be posted in the thread linked above

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Curent lemmy.world discussion

41% of instances have blocked Threads

Extensive discussion at Fediverse@lemmy.world

This article has already been linked 10 trillion times in previous discussions, but in case you missed it

For the hard of hearing

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VOTE RESULT

In favor (aye/oui/yes) : 200 votes

Against (nay/non/no) : 55 votes

Sh.itjust.works has voted in favor of preemptively defederating Threads.

Thank you for your participation, and happy holidays to everyone!

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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 49 points 11 months ago
[–] tracker@sh.itjust.works 39 points 11 months ago
[–] NullaFacies@sh.itjust.works 35 points 11 months ago
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 33 points 11 months ago

Aye

The opportunity to grow the fediverse quickly is enticing, but I think the risks of "embrace, extend, extinguish" are ultimately too high to federate until we have more info.

[–] frogfruit@sh.itjust.works 33 points 11 months ago
[–] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 months ago
[–] thal3s@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yes.

Zuckerberg is here to annihilate us. That’s his sole motivation.

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[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

aye

Fuck'em.

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[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Aye

While the idea of a larger central instance for all the normies that don't understand the fediverse sounds pretty neat, I don't think corporations belong on the internet. Also, I don't know anyone who actually uses threads over something like mastodon or even bluesky.

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[–] 768@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

Aye.

Meta cannot be given power over small servers and has not earned this leap of trust and interdependence.

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