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
It's made with Mermaid.
If you mean what decision process is behind it, or what the point is, I couldn't tell you. It just looks weird and alarming to me.
There's no money. And it's not the right way to build a strong and successful community. So why, then, are they doing things in this fashion? The longer you look, the weirder it gets.
It looks like we haven't put enough effort into naming things here, at least to me.
Tech Team Spiffy
May need work.
At the end of the day, any team that's trying to accomplish a technological task needs:
As long as you've got those four roles covered, you're probably good. You can have other people assisting, but if any of those isn't covered, you're in trouble.
It looks to me like LW has the first one covered and none of the other three. Their system administration team, whatever else is going on with the place, is killing it.
Can you have one person cover two roles? Could you have a head-slapping genius?
Yes, although it's usually safer to let one person specialize in each. If you try to cross the streams, you can introduce instability. Your head-slapping genius can turn into a megalomaniac over time and drive everyone off the project. Your genius business guy can turn out to be an absolute loony, and persuade everyone to work on a project that makes no sense and will never work. It's better if everyone picks a lane.
Tech Team Baldrick
Result!