@asjmcguire I came here because I needed a feed sans Musk that mimicked what my experience was on Twitter. I didn't get that here. I got pics of flowers or something and someone saying "brekkies" or something.
@theloneapple Largely I have found the fediverse very welcoming over the last few years. And then rumours of Project92 started and the fediverse became a very angry place.
I don't have a problem with instances wanting to defederate from meta, that's fine and totally up to them.
I do have a problem with instances saying if you want to continue talking to us, you can't talk to them.
@asjmcguire Honestly my stance is that I cannot prevent #P92 from using my contents to hurt their users; if they want to interact with us, they need to do so on our own terms.
I'm really pondering federating with #Threads on my own, self-hosted @bonfire instance, and I'm leaning towards not federating by default, for this reason and also because if I defederate from their instance later on they'll assimilate the Fediverse with drama, especially because social media provide affordances to seem and not to be, not to write ideas as affordances, enabling action, but rather to give a picture-perfect representation of yourself.
By the way, if we federate with Threads there might be strong economic incentives for creators to play this game instead of being more authentic. I could pull half a dozen of other reasons I've found from the top of my head, but I really don't want to reject Threads users, they will be free to read me by joining any free server implementation of ActivityPub.
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