• abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When you cut off a cancer, it dies. When you defederate a social network orders of magnitude larger and more powerful than you… it doesn’t even notice and continues to thrive.

    This isn’t going to harm Threads or protect Lemmy.ml.

    • Hello Hotel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      No, there are conciquences, we are at a point where its hard to see them

      We take a risk no matter what we do, when we pull that plug both FB and us loose control of eachother,

      FB will likely try to Embrace Extend Extinguish

      We really shoud try to get along until they go evil. but…

      at the same time we do somthing with our end of the link (3E method but without coersion like they will) or we die.

      OR we cut them off

      we sever the link and both sides lose power, Huge company with propaganda factories vs Good will and word of mouth alone,

      FB could also force federate by webscraping (likely read only)