cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7477620

Transitive defederation – defederating from instances that federate with Threads as well as defederating from Threads – isn’t likely to be an all-or-nothing thing in the free fediverses. Tradeoffs are different for different people and instances. This is one of the strengths of the fediverse, so however much transitive defederation there winds up being, I see it as overall as a positive thing – although also messy and complicated.

The recommendation here is for instances to consider #TransitiveDefederation: discuss, and decide what to do. I’ve also got some thoughts on how to have the discussion – and the strategic aspects.

(Part 7 of Strategies for the free fediverses )

  • fhqwgadsEnglish
    161·
    9 months ago

    We should defederate with any server that has less than 7 degrees of separation with Meta. We can call it the Kevin Bacon rule.

    • intensely_humanEnglish
      50·
      9 months ago

      I just went ahead and defederated with my own brain. This way I never have to worry about Meta sludge ruining my life by existing on my screen.

    • iAvicennaEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      I mean if it is really transitive then we should defederate with any server that can be connected to Meta with a finite length path

    • The Nexus of PrivacyOPEnglish
      24·
      9 months ago

      And complement the FediBlock tag with FediBacon! It’s got success written all over it!