• DarthBueller@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It really seems like having my own personal instance is the way to go. The only users I’d need to have are mods of any community I create on it. Then I can defederate with tech co instances. damn. I was really starting to like “local” here, but the fact that @ruud@lemmy.world is totally silent about threads is just absolute BS.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe I’m misinterpreting your post but what’s the point of having an instance if your only users are the mods you appoint? You’d just be creating your own personal echo chamber. The whole point of a site like this, at least as I see it, is to bring in a wide variety of users with different opinions. That’s a big reason why Reddit was so successful in the early days. I know that everyone is anti-Threads and Meta, but clearly @ruud@ruud@lemmy.world knows something we don’t. I think being federated with Threads could be a good chance to grow this community and bring more attention to the Fediverse as a whole. If you see something from a Threads instance that you really don’t like, you can always block and/or mute the account. On Mastodon, you can block entire instances from showing up in your feed. I’m not sure if that is a thing with Lemmy or not, but if not, it might not be a bad thing to implement later on. Sorry for the wall of text.