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Defederating is a one-way transaction. Any instance that defederates from Threads will only stop themselves from receiving data from it, but Threads will still be able to pull data directly from any and all instances.
With enough instances not federating threads thr data they can get will become spotty.
I understand it might not be everyone's cup of tea, but there's nothing on threads I want to receive.
I don’t think that’s true. Unless it’s a server side server denial rather than defederation, all posts on Lemmy are public. This means Threads will directly receive updates even from defederated instances.
Posts are public, yes, but you won't be able to see a post from an instance you're not federated with on
your own
instance. Yes, you can just load the instance url directly, but that's just web scraping. All voting interactions, views, etc are not available in those cases.I understand that if we have a setup like this:
then interactions from instance
B
on a post on instanceA
will, in fact, be available toThreads
. But nothing happening onB
will.Interactions on posts/communities on instance
B
coming from instanceA
will not be seen byThreads
.Overall, I think Threads will not actually ever enable federation to begin with, and even if it does - Lemmy is a bit of a different beast compared to Mastodon.
CMV: The people who want to receive data from Threads should just...make a freaking Threads account. The whole argument to connect with them at all is weird. It's like recording a Disney movie to your DVR box and setting up streaming from your smart TV to your tablet so you can now enjoy the movie you recorded in bed....when you could've just downloaded the freaking Disney+ app.
It's also (somehow) like when you're already in shorts and a t-shirt but still a little warm and someone else wants to turn the A/C off cause they're cold. They can put on more clothes and be totally comfy, I cannot (politely) take any more clothes off.
Accessing threads from mastodon is significantly more private than downloading the official app.