Context
The main arguments for people to defederate are
- "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy: ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-ne…
- 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:
lemmy.world/post/1274909?scrollToComments=true