Fediverse
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Can Lemmy.world go read-only? I think the biggest threat that can actually be handled is a bunch of shitty Facebook users making shitty, angry comments in lemmy.world threads. letting Threads read and display Lemmy.world content, but not comment would solve this.
There are other important threats from Facebook, but this one can actually be solved.
I am kinda curious to see how federating with it would actually work. I.e. what kind of content would actually end up in my "All" view, the usual facebook trash or actually interesting stuff? And would there maybe be interesting communities on it?
There would be interesting communities for sure, but your All feed would quickly turn into a Threads feed.
Don't worry. Elon's gonna sue and Zuck will quietly shut Threads down. /s
I've been reading blog posts taking various positions and remain undecided.
Threats is a better name for that data collecting pos.
In order to compete in user experience we need to up our game. We need to set up communities which collect, categorize and funnel user requests upstream. These features should be focused on:
- reducing frictions like unclear UI, broken links, etc.
- improving usability of the various web frontends (the one from Lemmy, kbin, etc.)
- collecting bug reports and making sure they will be fixed
This is meant to be a proxy between average users and tech enthusiasts who know how to do pull requests or open GitHub issues. Moderators of these communities would do it for them. This would enable us to gain visibility in the needs of the users.
This is only a part of what needs to be done, but I think this can be done quickly.
Lemmy doesn't need to compete. Hell, it can't compete. It's an open-source platform developed basically as volunteer work. Meta (and Threads) has millions of dollars and massive teams behind it.
Thankfully, we don't need Meta. We just need to do what we can to resist. The best we can hope for and what we should aim for is to limit the impact/damage Threads will have on our segment of the Fed. How to do that, I'm not sure exactly, but my first instinct is to block off anything corporate. Any interaction at all is basically just asking monied interests to take over.