I asked and enough of you answered that allowing to federate with threads.net even for the lolz would be considered too risky for y’all.
So I’ve gone ahead and added threads.net to our blocklist.
Man. As if Threads would even care. Due to their connection with instagram, they will automatically become the bigger content aggregator anyway. Why would threads even risk federation with platforms they do not control - and then they get sued if some moron on some instance posts questionable shit and some snowflake user on threads sees it. I’d bet Threads was never supposed to be federated. They just made use of a pre-existing software, just as truth social did. Why work hard, if the software is already there?
Furthermore threads is not even competing with Lemmy and Reddit like alternatives. I do t get all this fuss about threads. Everyone is suddenly so anti corporate, even though big corporations had a big part in what the internet is today.
In the future Defederation will just strengthen the position of bigger platforms. People will sooner or later be unhappy with the rather low amount of content and move to bigger platforms (that will eventually by controlled by corporations)
Staying federated is the smarter decision, as users will stay on smaller instances, since they have a big pool of content from other instances, including corporate instances like threads or similar.
Lets try to not throw names around and keep civil please. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, even if we dont agree with them
Yes, absolutely. So I am entitled to my belief that the commenter is a bootlicker. If you claim to be pro “we need to hear everyone out” (which I oppose strongly and deep inside you do, too), isn’t it hypocritical to claim authority over what is and isn’t allowed because “it’s not civil”?
You sound like someone who no one wants here, why not just move to threads full time?
Because I want Lemmy and mastodon to compete with threads and Meta.
I want a
I’d bet Threads was never supposed to be federated.
Except they already publicly announced that Threads is going to support ActivityPub and federate with the larger fediverse.
They just made use of a pre-existing software
Not in the way you think, I believe. It’s not like they used Mastodon as a basis - they can’t, at least not without also making their own software open source, which is never gonna happen. No, the software they’re using is proprietary and built by them. What they are “reusing” is the ActivityPub protocol, but it’s not like that was a cost-saving measure. Without the goal to federate, it would make no sense at all to use ActivityPub.
Staying federated is the smarter decision, as users will stay on smaller instances, since they have a big pool of content from other instances, including corporate instances like threads or similar.
Speak for yourself. I don’t want any content curated by that cancer of a company.
If we wanted to be a part of Facebook we’d be there. And since we’re not there we don’t want Facebook to be here. This is why many instances don’t want to be associated with them. Also no, corporations didn’t have part in the making of internet. They had a part in profiteering of our data and the internet. Being anti-corporate is only a sensible decision one can make in today’s world.
Yeah, I still remember early days of building something for the internet and you know what held back development easily by years: Internet Explorer. Big corporations even back then were playing that same shitty game of EEE, trying to lock people down and not caring at all about standards. Standards are why we have an internet at all.
Yeah, all the EEE talk made me reminisce a day or so ago about how IE was intentionally breaking standards and how dumber IT types fell for it and used it because “It’s more compatible!”.
Everyone is suddenly so anti corporate, even though big corporations had a big part in what the internet is today.
Big corporations also had a big part as to why piracy exists, so pirates on a piracy-focused instance being anti-corporate is not sudden at all.
I think you’re lost, pal.
Facebook already had a walled garden with Instagram. They didn’t need to use ActivityPub. If the weight of their usercount was enough to make everyone to switch to it, people would have switched to it. And yet,the fediverse is thriving outside of their influence for a reason. Facebook is not opening up their walled garden for no reason…
To put it simply Meta is way more problematic than Reddit, so makes zero sense to leave Reddit then go running off into the arms of Meta. So stand up job. Hilarious seeing Zuck’s astroturfers trying to poorly convince people it’s a bad idea to not hold hands with Meta.
