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by dstaley 1086 days ago
What's great is I can easily swap to an instance that is federating!

Unidirectional federation sounds like a nightmare on the UX side, so if that's the case I imagine it'd be Threads to Mastodon, enabling you to follow (but not interact) with Threads users.
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meragrin_ 1086 days ago
> What's great is I can easily swap to an instance that is federating!

Define swap. I'm hearing instances which federate with FB will be defederated as well. If instances need to be federated to "swap", it likely won't be easy.

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jtode 1084 days ago
Don't sweat it; the Defederation radicals are far fewer in number than the rest.

Our splinter network will exist but be a non-factor to those who want "reach".

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bogwog 1085 days ago
> Unidirectional federation sounds like a nightmare on the UX side

What do you mean by this? If you're a Mastodon user, you'd just see Threads users on your feed, and be able to reply/boost/etc their posts normally.

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