Thanks. Yes and no. I do from time to time, but I don’t want this account to be associated with those. I do hope though that on Lemmy more communities for non-tech related content will take off eventually, for example Philosophy and Meditation etc. Civil discussions, no flame wars, no spite, no hive-minded downvote(or upvote) brigades for all your interests would be a dream, how realistic this vision is with growing users is the question. Nevertheless, we are not at the point to worry about this yet.

Exactly this is what I am worried about, you can get into trouble quickly. Good luck explaining to lawyers/judges that it’s not your content actually but just federation. Even if you could, in most jurisdictions you wouldn’t be off-the-hook anyway.

Why would Threads users join Lemmy if they can just subscribe to instances federating with them. That is why I don’t want to post on instances federating with Threads anymore

I also don’t want Threads to benefit from my posts/comments

I see.

Would you still post to lemmy.world or you would create another community on lemmy.ml where Threads is blocked, if you were in my case?

I understand your problem. It’s an interesting thought-experiment. Though I am not a fan of Meta/Threads either, it probably is not that dear to my heart as it is to you. You’ll have to decide this based upon how important the situation with Threads really is to you. If it’s a matter of principle, you probably would not continue posting to lemmy.world. That said, as it’s niche communities you are talking about, creating new ones on other instances will create a split, which is most likely not helpful for user engagement. Who knows, if Threads will bring many users, it might actually help bring life to niche communities.

Of course, you do have every right to create another community somewhere else, my gut tells me it will not be successful though. I just don’t think many will be like “Oh there is a new community for this hosted on an instance not federating with Threads, let’s move!”. Users, overall, will probably gravitate towards the community with the most activity and it’s not likely that it will be your new one. However, you may have a chance if it there is hardly any activity now.

You are overthinking this. If you like green tea, but an instance admin prefers coffee, would you stop posting on every community on that instance? Do you only want to post where people 100% align with your views on everything? I guess not, because then you would have to host a private instance where you only talk to yourself. Therefore, stop overthinking this and keep posting there.

If the question whether somebody federates with Threads or not is THAT important to you, then you already have your answer.

Overall, I really hope we do not come to a point where thoughts like “my instance does not federate with $evilinstance, therefore it’s a good instance. But $otherinstance does, therefore $otherinstance sucks and I’ll avoid everything on $otherinstance” become the norm. Because then we get a clusterfuck.

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