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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by NineteenDoornails to c/[email protected]
 

A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There needs to be a Mozilla-like foundation that builds a competitive product platform for Fediverse that looks slick, is free of bugs, and matches any additional features that Threads might come up with

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Same thing we do about reddit. They are free to do their own thing in their own corner as long as they don't bring us into it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Don't use it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't think we should defederate threads. It would only give Meta a walled garden which we will be outside of. Let them embrace us here and encourage everybody to scatter across instances so they can't defederate reasonably

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I say we should just let Threads fail through its own doing.

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

"Should 'we' do?"

Nothing. If people and/or communities coming in through Threads are engaging in good faith, cool, more nice folks to have a community with. People/communities engaging in bad faith get blocked/defederated as is already common practice (and seems to be working outstandingly already, looking at average quality of posts and discourse "here" as compared to the "big platforms").

When Meta/Threads is hosting communities I like to see/be a part of, I'll figure out how to subscribe/integrate those. Besides that, they're free and welcome to run echo chambers in their own instances and communities, I don't see how any of that would ever show up on my feed.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here is how to block threads on Mastodon, if anyone has any ideas for how to do it on Lemmy, that'd be great.

https://hachyderm.io/@crowgirl/110663465238573628

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Right now? Have a Lemmy account on an instance that defederates anything Threads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is there a list of these somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Of either Threads instances or instances that defederate Threads, not that I know of, but I expect it'll be a thing in short time.

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