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Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads (lemmy.world)

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

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I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was surprised to see lemmy.world didn’t defederate. I hope it does. And, I hope a mod weighs in on the planned direction for the instance.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no real need right now. Lemmy is focused on following communities, not individuals. This is more of an issue for Mastodon than Lemmy.

It might never be an issue for Lemmy. Threads would need to start organizing people around communities, or Lemmy would need to encourage people to follow individuals (something Reddit promoted and no one cared about)

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

That's actually an argument for defederating atm. Because Lemmy can't pull Threads content, but Threads can without making that fact public.

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

Not sure what you mean. They can already pull any public data on lemmy, as can anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

They weighed in months ago back when it was announced and said they were taking a wait and see approach, where if it did cause problems they would defederate, but didn’t want to preemptively do so. Many other instances did defederate already though.