Context

• List of instances defederating from Threads, the Meta microblogging platform: https://fedipact.veganism.social/
• At the moment, Threads have incomplete federation with Fediverse microblogging instances: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/
• Another meme about Threads: https://feddit.uk/post/18194873
• Threads does not currently federate with link aggregators (Lemmy, Piefed)
• Threads could work with the microblogging part of Mbin

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