• ampersandrew
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    22 years ago

    But then if other instances don’t want those features, isn’t the worst that can happen that instances just de-federate from Threads? I know the history of EEE, but I don’t see how that can even work here.

    • SamXavia
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      12 years ago

      Yes if certain instances don’t like Threads they can de-federate from it, and I’m sure a few will, Personally I think it should be down to user choice as the users on Threads aren’t to bad it’s the company that is.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      But then if other instances don’t want those features

      In other words, if other instances don’t want to have compatibility with the popular instances – hence the issue.

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        That’s not really an issue though; or at least, I’m not yet convinced it’s one. We’re here because we don’t want to have compatibility with Reddit, and I’m on Mastodon because I don’t want to have compatibility with Twitter.

        • @[email protected]
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          We’re here

          Are we though? Because it looks like you’re on kbin and I’m on slrpnk.

          If either one of our instances decides to implement proprietary features that Threads creates (the second E in EEE) and the other one doesn’t, that could break the experience of us being “here” together.

          • ampersandrew
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            22 years ago

            And we’re free to move to another instance that has the access, or lack thereof, that we want.

              • ampersandrew
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                22 years ago

                I always saw that as a feature, not a bug. The feature that prevents it from being the last E.

                • @[email protected]
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                  22 years ago

                  If you see massive fragmentation as a feature then I really don’t know what to tell you.

                  I guess enjoy?

                  • ampersandrew
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                    22 years ago

                    I’m a Linux user. That “fragmentation” is probably a good reason for why that hasn’t been extinguished either. So as far as I can tell, yes, I’ll enjoy the resilience that that implies without fear of it being extinguished.