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Some good-faith questions of some seemingly apparent benefits of a potential Corporate Fediverse, and the detriments of defederating from a Corporate Fediverse. Could I get some answers?

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  • For what it's worth, I wanted to pipe up in these comments and say you're not the only one with these opinions. Just thought I'd say so here because the nature of the post is getting you blasted pretty hard with people who've made up their mind that federating with threads is damning your soul for eternity.

    Imo we have more to gain than lose, and all of the doomsday scenarios laid out by people - though more than possible - are no better than the outcome if people don't federate with them.

    • How do those cockroaches breed so fast?

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  • Obvious troll is obvious.

    • What is the weirdest area of the Fediverse you have found yourself in so far?

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  • ...I reserve the right to remain silent lol

    • What is the weirdest area of the Fediverse you have found yourself in so far?

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  • burggit.moe, nsfw instance. Went there because some of the stuff I'm into had been banned from lemmynsfw, but...yikes. They go a little too extreme into some areas for me aye.

    • We are starting with the BS so early huh Threads?

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  • Might depend on who you talk to. Everyone I spoke to about it was under the same understanding that it's integrated deeply with your Instagram account.

    I spun up my old burner Instagram account to check the platform out. They tell you that you can only change things like your name from Instagram, the app let's you import all other profile info from Instagram, and when you login for the first time it shows you the thread profiles of everyone you follow on Instagram and gives you a button to add them all.

    It's not just an Auth method, it's the same account with the ability to change a few things between apps. Plenty of reasons to hate Threads, but this ain't it.

    • We are starting with the BS so early huh Threads?

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  • ...do you not? To delete the data I mean, not just to make it appear deleted to everyone without access to the Google/Meta user database.

    • We are starting with the BS so early huh Threads?

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  • Pretty sure you use an Instagram account to login to Threads, so that makes sense.

    • The official Reddit app on the Google play store has 3.3 stars. If you've used Reddit and don't agree with that rating, be sure give it your two cents!

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  • Note that 2 stars at this point makes more impact than 1 star. A spike a one star tells people "some drama is going on that it getting the app review bombed. Probably doesn't matter to me." More 2 stars is better.

    • Not Fully Federated?

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  • I have another issue that I thought was defederation, am I missing something about how the fediverse works too?

    On my lemmy.world acoount I made a post https://programming.dev/post/366871. Looking at it on my lemmy.world account, it has 15 points and 10 comments. Looking at it from programming.dev, it has 12 points and only 3 comments. I was thinking this meant there was some defederation I didn't know about, which is why I came to check the meta community out. I take it that isn't the case though?