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No post has been made that I know of. Mastodon's CEO laid out his stance in the post below and I would hope Lemmy would follow with them.
Lots of echo chambering going on in here about EEE and Meta profiting off of everything. In reality, they can scrape data like anyone else, the profit from such small communities is negligible, and defederating meta would only hurt those that defederated because way more users than people here think will want to see and manage Threads while also not needing a Threads account to avoid the data hell that it is.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
The worry about EEE is actually not my primary concern at the moment. And it's not data collection either, though I hate what Meta is doing there.
I'm not interested in Threads "content" on my front page here. And boy will it ever be all over the "All" page thanks to Threads users outnumbering all of the Fediverse by many magnitudes. The poor algorithm is not going to show you any new Lemmy content anymore with all the engagement Threads posts is going to get.
Then there are the comments in communities here. If you've felt happy that this community has better atmosphere and discussions than the dreg you'd be served on Reddit, just wait until we open the door for hundreds of millions of Facebook commenters.
I love the community that is building on Lemmy. If I wanted to participate in the community on Meta I'd be on Instagram or Facebook or Threads.
But I don't. That's why I'm here.
Facebook can bootstrap their product with federated content made by users who are in the fediverse because they don’t want to support a company like Facebook. By not defederating, you would be helping Facebook every time you post a comment or make a post because you would be giving Facebook free content to further their for-profit goals.
Edit: they’ll also probably be taking fediverse content and displaying it with ads to monitize the content you all made.
Sure Facebook's parent company Meta can scrape the content already because it's public but without federating their users cant bring in their toxic Instagram mentality into our places.
Lmao at you complaining about toxicity when you're toxically judging and gatekeeping 2 Billion people.