here’s a good write up about why federating with threads is a bad idea, below is just a tidbit, I read it ages ago so just picked some dotpoints.
Less emotionally, I think it’s unwise to assume that an organization that has…
demonstrably and continuously made antisocial and sometimes deadly choices on behalf of billions of human beings and
allowed its products to be weaponized by covert state-level operations behind multiple genocides and hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) of smaller persecutions, all while
ducking meaningful oversight,
lying about what they do and know, and
treating their core extraction machines as fait-accompli inevitabilities that mustn’t be governed except in patently ineffective ways…
…will be a good citizen after adopting a new, interoperable technical structure
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here’s a good write up about why federating with threads is a bad idea, below is just a tidbit, I read it ages ago so just picked some dotpoints.
https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads