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  • I had spent some time thinking about the potential Threads federation and I've formed a strong opinion. I'd rather we keep defederated (for now).

    Moderation/Zuck ownership concerns aside, which others have already raised, Threads's userbase is orders of magnitude greater than Reddthat. The possibility of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is very real if XMPP's history is any indication. That being said, I'm not fully against Threads federation with Lemmy as a whole. I'll just say that I don't trust that if we federate with them now, it would be a net gain to Reddthat's userbase. I think the instance's open-first policy is suited for communities of a similar magnitude of activity/userbase to us that may not necessarily work with respect to Mastodon or Threads.

    I'm rather adamant on "observe, and trust, and verify". lemmy.world is federated with Threads. Let's see how that goes for them, whether if they're better or worse off with that, then we reconsider. In this regard, I view the lemmy.world/Threads interaction as a "controlled endpoint of interaction" between these systems. If users really want to see Threads content in Lemmy, consider adding a lemmy.world account in addition to your Reddthat one.