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[–] [email protected] 77 points 11 months ago (34 children)

And hopefully no instance will federate with them... Right?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Couldn’t just some of y’all defed instead of blocking it wholesale for everyone?

I thought one of the main perks of federation was user choice?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, that's what has always been mentioned, defederated from them, AFAIK there's no way of blocking it completely from the fediverse, so if your instance's admin wants they can decide to not block them and you can interact with meta.

If your instance defederates and you want to still see their activity then you can choose an instance which is still federated with them.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I suspect lemm.ee will, but not much beyond that. Hell, theyre still fedded with explodingheads and hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Threads isn't going to federate with Lemmy. It's not the same sort of communication and the crossovers are ugly and confusing. Mastodon is where the real federation/defederation decisions will take place.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Mhm, just because John Mastodon embraces Meta doesn't mean that I have to like it.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (12 children)

Hi. No one is creating content on Threads, can we steal your content, please?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Threads federation is mostly targeted towards Mastodon than Lemmy, so I highly doubt it will make much of a difference whether any Lemmy instance federates or not, since Lemmy is purely group based and does not federate well with even Mastodon to begin with as there is a huge difference in design philosophy. (Which means I can stay under the radar a bit longer.)

However, I don't think Facebook will stop at Threads, they are using Threads as a preliminary test, and if it goes well, I think the next step they could do is to get Instagram itself to federate.

So here is a thought: suppose reddit or Instagram are open to federation, would you say federating with them and getting all their content will be worth it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh my gosh it's Margot Robbie

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress/Lemmy powermod Margot Robbie to you!

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

RIP open and user owned Internet movement attempt.

Say Hello to Fediverse+, for only $39.99 a month you can access ad free browsing as your feed is fed only corpo approved posts that have flooded and drowned out any alternative voices.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I'm don't totally understand the fediverse and how it works. How does meta making one of their options federated harm the rest of the fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wow, this shit needs to be posted everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It was for a good few weeks

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (20 children)

There is zero benefit to engaging with multi-billion dollar companies.

The harm is they embrace, extend, extinguish the Fediverse and I can easily see the W3C letting them donate and start putting in some features “to protect” the children or media ownership rights or whatever bogus excuse they’ll use to start cracking down on it like every company does every time it gets involved in something.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

And so it begins.....Embrace.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Has mastodon blocked threads? Please block it. Kill that shit and hope thread will take zuckerberg out too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Mastodon.social admin and lead mastodon dev Eugen Rochko signed an NDA with Facebook and has since been in support of Threads' embrace of the Fediverse and asked people to give Facebook a chance. We won't know if he's made some deal (monetary or otherwise) with Facebook due to aformentioned NDA.

Many instances of the fediverse are anti-Threads despite his shilling though.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Fuck SuckerBurg all my homies hate Suckerburg

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Joining the fediverse — the decentralized world of social media that includes Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other services that all interoperate through ActivityPub — has been on the Threads team’s to-do list since the very beginning.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri told The Verge in July that he believed decentralizing the platform was key to making it relevant to a new generation of creators.

Skeptics have long held that Threads would never actually federate, even as Zuckerberg, Mosseri, and others at Meta kept promising they would.

For the largest and most centralized social service on the web, suddenly throwing open the gates to other platforms seemed like an unlikely pivot.

This test appears to only cover one small part of a truly federated social network — it doesn’t sound like you’ll be able to post from Mastodon to Threads, for instance, and you can’t move your account between services.

But the test at least reaffirms Meta’s commitment to ActivityPub and to being part of the broader open social web.


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