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I feel like we should federate with threads.net (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yes, yes I know this is an unpopular opinion but let me give you guys an example that relates to this. You guys know email? Well if you had made an email instance and then Google made Gmail, would you guys block it? No. Just because it’s made by a big company does not mean you should block it. What if you wanted to talk to people on threads? What if you wanted more content because there is more users on there? Please don’t defederate from threads people.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Threads supporting activitypub is an attempt at a hostile takeover of the fediverse. Please read this article: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Also, since you mentioned E-Mail, you'll probably want to know how the exact same thing is happening there: http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.html?m=1

The fediverse isn't as deeply integrated into our everyday lives as E-Mail, so we can still prevent it from being taken over by corporations.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now I’m convinced that it’s a bad idea. Thoinks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the email example is an unintentional counterexample: it's nearly impossible to run your own email server these days and not have your email rejected by everyone because the IP address is unrecognized and the spam filter is beyond reject-happy. To put it into fediverse terms: it'd be like federating with them, but where their CloudFlare DDOS protection blocks ActivityPub requests (this is actually what broke kbin's federation a week or two ago so it's not just a hypothetical!).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, in effect all of email is already federated. Shared protocols won. It's literally the opposite of what people are imagining is going to happen here.

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