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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 @[email protected].””

“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.”

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[–] [email protected] 148 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I came here specifically to avoid meta and reddit

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Same. If Meta isn't chased away, I'm leaving the Fediverse. Once I ripped the reddit bandaid off, my loyalty to any one site evaporated. I won't feel a thing if I need to find somewhere else to go.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If this instance doesn't defederate from Threads, I'm sure plenty of others will. And you can always host your own and lose very little functionality. That's the entire point of the fediverse. Tying your view of the fediverse to one single instance is kind of missing the point.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My concern is the embrace, extend, extinguish method that will ruin the Fediverse regardless of the number of instances, as big tech giants are so adept at doing. I don't have an optimistic outlook here. Meta is here for a reason, and they aren't going to just go away now that their foot is in the door.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see how they can accomplish that though. They can't really bring any value other than lower barrier of entry to users. They're exposed to other instances and everyone can point out what they're giving up when they can literally lose nothing by switching to a different instance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Everyone read one article on ebrace, extend and extinguish and now they're experts on the subject matter

For all I see is that the biggest threat Threads brings to us is that by federating with them you're going to receive a shit ton of facebook quality content

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, all that matters is doomscrolling and shitposts, and we can all get our fill of content without any corporate fuckers fucking this shit the fuck up.

Also, Fuck spez and fuck Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Save some fucking for Ajit Pai while we're at it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gladly, thanks for the reminder.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I would be even more disillusioned and disappointed than I currently am, I will admit it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But you could just change to whatever instance isn't federated with them. There will be many, I expect.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

dude exactly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There are always instances and apps that will block them for you. That's the beauty of interoperability.