“Defederating won’t save our data” No, but it will sure as shit make it that much more difficult to get to it. You and every other idiot making this stupid fucking point seem to have very little knowledge in how deep Meta’s data scraping goes and how much data one particular instance can generate. Do YOU want these cunts generating a complete mental profile of you, determining what products you NEED in your life, and then spinning up a fucking bot to spam you with directed posts about whatever horseshit dick pill or bootleg t-shirt they were paid to promote to you? Want to keep that from happening? Well, you can either ban every bot that posts shit in your direction OR you can defederate the cunts and avoid it altogether.

“Federation saves me from using their app” Why is this even a fucking question? Who gives a shit about their app? Is there actually anything you’re missing right now that you just so totally have to fucking see on Threads that you can’t get elsewhere? Are you not aware how the internet works and that shit’s going to be screentshot and posted to every fucking news outlet if it matters? Are your friends and family so actively stupid they couldn’t figure out how to use a slightly different app to post on the instance you created yourself?

“I may have long hair, a beard and a bunch of machines that run GNU/Linux but I’m not Richard Stallman.” Well I would HOPE that you wouldn’t be a toe-cheese eating CSAM apologist. At least you’ve got that going for you.

“Federation forces them to play by the rules” AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAH~ BAAHAHAHAH_!~!!! AHAHAHAHAHAH! HAHA! HAAA! HA. Ha. Hahaha. ha. Good one. Fuck off if you actually believe this.

There is no fucking reason to let these pricks have their way. Fuck them in the ear, then fuck 'em in the other ear.