Afaik, whenever an Activitypub instance has defederated from another it has always had to do with some combination of bad user behavior, poor moderation, and/or spam. Are the various instance admins who have decided to preemptively block threads.net simply convinced that these traits will be inevitable with it? Is it more of a symbolic move, because we all hate Meta? Or is the idea to just maintain a barrier (albeit a porous one) between us and the part of the Internet inhabited by our chuddy relatives?

(For my part, I'm working on setting up my own Lemmy and/or Pixelfed instance(s) and I do not currently intend to defederate.)

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[–] xcjs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In addition to what you said, I think additional aspects to consider are the open standards and protocols Facebook/Meta have already abandoned once it became convenient to do so:

XMPP access for Messenger/Chat
RSS feeds for any newsfeed source. They even continued to use the RSS badge (which is unofficial as far as I'm aware) for their follow icon even after they removed RSS feeds.

The bare minimum price of Meta's integration into the Fediverse should be nothing less than the return of those standards, and honestly even that may not be enough.