Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse.
Great.
I joined the Fediverse to escape Facebook’s toxic interpretation of communities, so Facebook is coming to the Fediverse instead.
Just great…You should just join an instance that blocks threads.net. Fortunately there are many of such instances. Your current instance doesn’t seem to defederate any other instance, which is kind of suspect on its own.
Blocking everyone and every community you see from Facebook’s new parasite social media could be good, me thinks.
@Auster@lemm.ee You can just use an instance that is defederated from them, that’s the beauty of the Fediverse
According to https://lemm.ee/instances your instance already blocks them for example
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
can’t you selectively block entire instances? you can in Boost
It’s not just a matter of blocking Threads users.
Facebook is coming on here to slurp up data I don’t want them to have, and enriching their own Threads ecosystem with Fediverse content they haven’t lifted a finger to create.
Not to mention, when Threads users are able to fully interact in the Fediverse, do you really want that particular bunch to create noise in your communities? I don’t. There’s a reason why I avoid Facebook in all its forms.
Uh… this fediverse stuff is all on the public internet. Facebook could be slurping it up just as easily without joining at all.
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It took around a year for a solo dev (and a couple contributors) to develop a fully federated platform. Why is it taking on of the largest companies on the planet this long to make such tiny changes that are useless anyway.And why are they releasing it like this instead of releasing everything at once?
Because every step of the way, they need a flock of MBAs to figure out the answer to the question “How do we make money off of this?”
I’m rather guessing the other way around. Because they can’t directly extract money from this, they can’t justify to their shareholders to sit down full-time devs. Instead, this is a project solely run by interns and student.
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Note: You can’t interact with Threads accounts from Lemmy, but you can interact with Threads accounts from MBin (and maybe PieFed), except if your instance is defederated from them obviously
There’s POTUS account for example @potus@threads.net
Why not Lemmy?
Lemmy doesn’t implement Mastodon (which is the fediverse version of Twitter), only their own Lemmy one (Reddit clone). Kbin and Mbin implement both, as does pyfedi/piefed.
Why does Lemmy not interact with Mastodon if the other two can?
Design choice by the creators.
Am I the only one who thinks that’s a bad choice? The whole point of the fediverse is that all the things are connected.
Lemmy is open source and so anyone who wants to add this functionality is free to do so.
Considering who the original creators of Lemmy are and the controversy over lemmygrad.ml however, I’d say that we dodged a bullet, all things considered.
If you want a thing that tries to integrate with everything, consider pyfedi - in addition to Lemmy and Mastodon they also have code to integrate with pixelfed and probably even more things (I’m still learning about all the integrations that it has).
What happened to Kbin btw? I used to be on there since the start but the page has been broken since a while for me
It was run by one guy who had health issues. So it shut down. Mbin is the main fork now.
Ah I see. Good thing someone continued it tho!
The owner of kbin.social (and creator of kbin incidentally) has been MIA for a few months now, so it’s presumed that it’s over. I haven’t heard of anything concrete regarding the fate of kbin.social or ernest though - unless someone has heard differently, it remains possible that ernest returns in a year or two and brings kbin.social back up.
I think https://kbin.earth/ exists as an instance still running ernest’s original flavour of kbin (as opposed to its sucessor mbin).
Because right now the Threads federation is still pretty one sided, the Fediverse users can reply to the Threads posts, but the Threads users can’t see the Fediverse posts, only replies
And with how Lemmy works, you can’t reply to the microblogging accounts, you can’t reply to Mastodon’s posts neither, so you can’t get your replies federated
Do regular Mastodon instances and clients play nicely with Threads?
I’ve been on Mastodon for a while and never seen a Threads user.
On paper it should play well, it appeared as Mastodon would on my Mbin instance. A lot of Mastodon instances have preemptively defederated from Threads though, so you need to shop around.
Or just don’t federate with threads. Embrace, extend, extinguish is a thing
I don’t want to see commercial content. I also don’t want others to see it because it will pollute the culture of the Fediverse.
I am so glad my instance is defederated
Boo. Go away Zuck and take your shitty vertical videos with you.
We used to say that people who made vertical videos had Vertical Video Syndrome. It was a terrible time.
I don’t like this rebranding to “open social web” like it was made for them.
I don’t think i’ve ever seen a Threads message in any of my Lemmy / Mastodon feeds. Perhaps I’m not mixing in the right circles?
