pjhenry1216 comments on To the admins- will lemmy.world block Facebook's Threads or are you open to federating with them in the future?

To the admins- will lemmy.world block Facebook's Threads or are you open to federating with them in the future? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by YellowtoOrange@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

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https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Many of us do not trust Facebook and anything it is associated with or swallows up.

EDIT:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/adam-mosseri-says-metas-threads-app-wont-have-activitypub-support-at-launch/

"Instagram head Adam Mosseri said "

““Soon, you’ll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, such as Mastodon. They can also find people on Threads using full usernames, such as @mosseri@threads.net.””

“We’re committed to building support for ActivityPub, the protocol behind Mastodon, into this app. We weren’t able to finish it for launch given a number of complications that come along with a decentralized network, but it’s coming,” he said.

“If you’re wondering why this matters, here’s a reason: you may one day end up leaving Threads, or, hopefully not, end up de-platformed. If that ever happens, you should be able to take your audience with you to another server. Being open can enable that.”

[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (6 children)

I don't see what people are afraid of. Lemmy.world can do what it wishes, but I honestly don't see where the fear comes in. At the very least just mark it invisible. Let those other users see what other alternatives are out there.

What problem are you trying to fix by blocking them before even seeing what it's like (without using some vague notions)?

Will it even natively federate with this format? Just as Mastodon doesn't default to trying to display posts in its feed and Kbin doesn't by default show Mastodon or PixelFed, etc. You might be worrying over nothing.

Your server federated with Mastodon instances. I'm assuming you aren't inundated with Mastodon posts.

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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

Have you watched how growth-at-all-costs tech companies behave? They are ruthless. Nothing good can come from them joining.

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[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

Their joining inti the fediverse is not influenced by a server preemptively defederating a source that isn't even live yet. I don't truly care who defederates who, but forcing them to do so early doesn't make sense. If it's truly as bad as you say, they'll be defederated fairly quickly. I just don't like folks literally causing infighting simply because some admins are fairly level headed.

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