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How does defederating make it harder?

When you’re federated together, you get a copy of every post on your server.

Nope. Only followed accounts (or in Lemmy’s case, communities), and only toots (posts) made after the first user starts following it.

Which could still be millions?

AFAIK, there is only one Threads.net

no benefits

I hate and don’t trust Meta, so the main benefit for me would be the ability to follow Threads users from my nonprofit, ad free, tracker free, Mastodon account I already have. I don’t want an account with Meta.

Won’t the amount of users using meta effectively be a ddos attack on the smaller instances though?

Nope, because Threads users will be visiting Threads, not sh.tijust.works (or mastodon.social or whatever). So even if 10,000,000 Threads accounts decide to follow a single mastodon.social account, that account’s instance only syncs it with Threads, not every single user.

why is meta freaking out so hard

Unless I missed something, they’re not. I’m pretty sure they haven’t commented on the topic whatsoever.

I use it. It’s great. I’ve tried Linux many times over the past decade but it never stuck until Zorin. If you’re coming from Windows it’s a very friendly (and polished) way of being welcomed to Linux while also showing off Linux’s strengths, things that are often hidden to the user unless they want to explore the terminal.

For Mac users who are Linux-curious I would recommend Ubuntu because it’s much similar, whereas Zorin seems clearly designed with people who liked Windows 10 but not Windows 11.

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I would love to federate with Reddit. I hate having a Reddit account. I hate their website layout and apps. I hate their ads. If I could access some of the niche reddit communities that aren’t on Lemmy without using Reddit that seems to have absolutely no downside.

Step three is really making a lot of assumptions considering the entire reason Mastodon exists is to limit the control of big companies.

But how could interoperability lead to extinguishing? That’s the part I don’t understand. By what means could Threads “extinguish” the network of instances that stay federated?

That’s a common misconception actually, any and all data available via federation is already public and easily scrapable even without running an instance of one’s own. Defederating only hides (in this case) Threads content from users on the instance doing the defederating, but the data is still public. Not to mention copies of it would still be fully available on any extant federated instances.

But how would defederating prevent any of that?

Yes. You do it from the “copy” of the community on your instance.

So if you’re on Lemmy.ml and want to subscribe to “c/StarTrek” on StarTrek.website, you can do it from Lemmy.ml/c/StarTrek@startrek.website

If you’re using an app you don’t have to worry about it, also there are browser extensions that simplify it too, the way I describe is without any tools.

Can you explain what that means in this context? How does defederating Threads prevent Meta from extinguishing anything?

Imo, TOS is the exception because while the series is obviously great, the movies are where those characters really shine. Khan is great and establsihed the film franchise but The Undiscovered Country is nearly a perfect film.

Daystrom provided a place for a more academic-style analysis that would have been drowned out even on r/StarTrek which already didn’t allow low-effort.

Not for everyone, but it worked for those who liked it.

I almost hate to break this to you…

If you think about it, Discovery is probably the least progressive of the entire franchsie, but it caught the ire of conservative-minded people because it presents as normal things earlier shows would have made a point to explain.

It’s the same way TOS had entire episodes dedicated to race, and yet in the 90s many people decsibed Sisko simply existing while black as “pandering to the PC crowd”.

To quote captain Kirk: “Some people can be very frightened of change.”

You can of course add it to your bio if you’re a fan, but you might want to be aware that it will increasingly not be interpreted innocently.

No haha I know I just have yet to hear why it would help

ubuntu is fine lol especially for a newbie. Zorin is really familliar for a windows user.