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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

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The main arguments for people to defederate are

  • "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
  • A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
  • Defederating preventively costs nothing

LW stance: https://lemmy.world/post/1274909?scrollToComments=true

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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

No matter what instance you are on, you are most likely to be subscribed to communities on other instances. For example, when I switched instances due to technical issues I ended up subbing to the same or at least a similar list of communities across instances and blocking the same users after a few weeks.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Problem is I don't really do that. I just like to browse the all feed, often Top Hour and Top Day as well.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Sopuli.xyz has the same All feed as LW, as they block the same instances, and Sopuli is large enough that people have subscribed to any active community possible

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The easy solution is to just go to an instance and browse their All feed and see if it has the content you like. If I understand correctly you are limited to instance communities if you aren't signed in so that should give you a good idea about the instance culture.

For example, if you visit https://startrek.website/ you will see it is pretty much star trek stuff. If you go to hexbear you will just see their hexbear bullshit. Both will give you an idea of what their instance is all about without needing to register.

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