this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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For discussion about the Lemmy software project, go to [email protected].

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It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it's users will not be allowed to proceed.

We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I agree, threads connecting to the fediverse seems like it would be a positive step for everyone. I'm not sure how meta could kill the fediverse as long as independent servers exist. If meta is flooding the fediverse with spam or other influencer bs, then we can all just defederate.

I have an alternate theory that threads is never planning to support the fediverse. They are trying to attract users who are looking for a Twitter alternative, and right now the most compelling option is mastodon. But if threads announces activitypub support, then some would-be mastodon users might join threads instead, thinking it will all be connected. But if threads ends up winning all those users anyways, then they'll just say fuck it, we don't need activitypub.

[–] mark 6 points 2 years ago

threads is never planning to support the fediverse

Same thing I'm thinking. If they were going to support it, they would've done it already. And it wouldn't be an after thought.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I agree, threads connecting to the fediverse seems like it would be a positive step for everyone.

How did you even end up here?