Spzi , 1 year ago

Accounts can be on instances which are federated with Threads, and on instances which are defederated from Threads. A single person can have both types of accounts.

Defederation has effects which many users find desirable. The same suite of effects is not available on a user level, and would require each user to manually take action individually.

So from a feature perspective, it is necessary that some instances defederate. This provides better service for users who find it desirable.

There will also be instances who federate. People can use accounts there if they prefer that.

TL;DR: We don’t need a consensus. Instances can choose their federation policy. People can choose which instance(s) they use.