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exactly this, they can control what is on it, give their journalists, shows, etc accounts and it being a self contained hub for everything bbc, while interacting with rest of the fediverse.

Im guessing they will also get more statistics and information from hosting it themselves as well. its a no brainer.

You don’t need to use loads. You can access all communities across all servers just using your single lemmy.world account (except beehaw)

Yeah, its sad. one more place dead

Overreaction much? Threads isn’t even federated yet.

Worry about bolting the door once the horse is actually heading towards the stable.

half the population voted for Trump

As a Brit, I can honestly say that neither I, nor anybody I know, voted for Trump. I’m pretty sure vast swathes of Germany, France, India, Senegal, did not vote for him either.

Russia… maybe…

I think long term its a “big deal”, but in the shorter term, the amount of panic among people who are actively switching to another instance because the instance they are on has not blocked threads yet is kinda ridiculous.

I am not leaving lemmy.world for another instance because they have not instantly blocked threads (who don’t even have connection set up to the fediverse in a way that lemmy can share content)

So in the short term (like today, this week, this month) it is not a big deal.

In the longer term it is a big deal and worthy of discussion.

But, because someone says “I am demanding lemmy.world unfederate from meta in the next 24 hours or I leave” does not mean they support Meta on the fediverse :D

There is no indication that they never will de-federate from Meta.

All they have said is rather than shutting the stable before the horse bolts, they are actually waiting for the horse to get in the stable first and then address if the door needs closing.

There really is no need to either defederate from meta, or make that decision right now anyway