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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] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I donate money to this platform because I want an open and free internet. I want that for anyone who wants to partake. I don’t want extremists, sure - but I think the “soccer moms” you are referring to are really just your average internet consumer. If we don’t agree on that, that’s fine - I’m happy to move to an instance that’s not as restrictive. I think that’s the beauty of the fediverse. I think it’s ironic when you talk about wanting open minded people to join the instance though lol.

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

I have nothing against "soccer moms", I just don't want to see endless photos of their kids, which may be ironic since there's shitposting on all social networks. Perhaps we'd be able to ignore those communities, however it'll leak over to other communities.

It seemed to be "fine" when "those" sorts of "regular folk" stuck to facebook for their fix of sharing their lives.

Anyway, this aspect isn't the main point, I'd say - it's that one cannot trust facebook, and if they want to federate, it cannot be good for us.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Personally I don't care about the soccer moms, my main concern is all the problems that come with being a mainstream social media platform. Threads threatens to overwhelm the content being generated with all those problems where your Lemmy feed is just going to represent Instagram etc again. Screw that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's exactly what I'm talking about when using the generic "soccer moms" - mainstream twitter/facebook posts.

I'm probably confusing myself as I have nothing against "normal people", and want them to discus sthings, and I'm sure there could be a lot of good discussions that could be had with "normal people", though being drowned by mainstream media posts is the main issue, as you say.

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

And if that experience ends up being negative, instances can choose to defederate. Many admins just want to see if it will actually be a problem. If admins choose to solve a problem that doesn't exist yet, let them. But let's not protest instances and destroy communities over possibly nothing just because the admin is curious to see what happens.

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

I think it would be easy enough to unsubscribe to the EndlessMoppets community and only subscribe to communities that curate Moppetless posts.

As far as leaking over goes, I never had a problem with EndlessMoppets leaking into any of the subs I did subscribe to over on Reddit.

And for what it’s worth Lemmy is not encrypted so it would be silly to think Meta isn’t already vacuuming up all this content already.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html