I just saw that lemmy.ml has pre-emptively defederated from threads. Are there any plans to do that here? I personally want nothing to do with Meta/Facebook, and I’m sure that’s not an unpopular opinion around here.
edit: y’all, please pay attention to where you are when coming from all.
edit again: kbin really ought to make a post’s home instance more clear.
I would support the admins in a decision to block Threads, and would not be abandoning my account if they did
Keep corporations off platforms. They have no business peddling their lies and cheap garbage.
I was hoping someone was going to ask this here.
Ultimately, I will support the decision of our gracious host, whose time and money has made this instance possible. But I do not care to interact at all with Threads/Meta and I do not believe their presence on the fediverse is anything other than an attempt to either monetize it or potentially make it obsolete
Ultimately, I will support the decision of our gracious host, whose time and money has made this instance possible. But I do not care to interact at all with Threads/Meta and I do not believe their presence on the fediverse is anything other than an attempt to either monetize it or potentially make it obsolete
Agreed, 100%. And thanks for putting it more eloquently than I was able to, haha!
I will support the decision of our gracious host, whose time and money has made this instance possible.
I mean… he’s a developer, not a deity. I appreciate that this is a space he made, and he can do what he wants. But I’m also free to leave if he decides to federate with a Zuckerberg product.
Not trying to be rude or anything, but you’re not even here. This isn’t kbin. This is a specific meta community for this instance, slrpnk.net.
That’s, uh… that’s a good point you got there. I still get confused by the whole federation thing lol
Yeah, I don’t see much point in federating with anything Facebook comes up with.
However, I suspect the planned AP support by Tumblr will be the bigger question. Solarpunk obviously has been always very strong on Tumblr and the current owners of Tumblr are not nearly as bad as Facebook, but it is still a huge corporate run instance if and when it joins the Fediverse.
I’m glad to hear we won’t be federating with threads or any other meta products. As far as Tumblr, things might be a bit more complicated. Chris Trottier, a developer who is the admin for calckey . social , read Meta’s latest press release about Threads and it mentions Tumblr as well as Wordpress, which many websites run, who are both owned by a company known as Automattic. His take is that Meta has likely been in discussion with Automattic about Activitypub and that could have a big impact on the Fediverse.
Link to original post — > https://calckey.social/notes/9gvjlnajyc0pgyal
Meta press release — > https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/introducing-threads-new-app-text-sharing/
I did see that, yes. Indeed I also think this isn’t a big nefarious plan of Facebook to kill the Fediverse (we are probably too small for them to care), but the damage will be done by them never the less and we better try our best to limit the damage as good as we can.
For Tumblr I guess we will see in a few months.
Just a reminder that regardless of what kbin.social decides, you can block federated domains for yourself. Go to:
https://kbin.social/d/domainname
So I just blocked Threads and it was:
https://kbin.social/d/threads.net
On the right side, click the “don’t” icon (circle with a slash through it). When it’s red, that means that domain is blocked.
That’s great for kbin users and all, but this community is meta for the slrpnk.net instance, which runs lemmy.
edit: that also seems like it would just make links to said domain invisible. They can see you, but you can’t see them. I could be wrong, as I’ve never used kbin before.
Apologies. Some federated content comes through with (kbin.social) after the thread title. I’m sure it’s one of the bugs Ernest is working on.
