You might downvote this, go ahead, I know you hate proprietary goods, but just listen.
Is anyone excited to see that Threads is soon to federate with us on to the fediverse? I know I am, and this is becuase I can communicate with my family from Lemmy or Mastodon as I mainly use these two platforms. I am also not saying that Threads is good, its a bad platform in terms of privacy, and Meta is notoriously shitty in terms of user data collection. I’m making this post because I was just wondering if there is someone out there like me who likes the move what Meta is doing with Threads in federating with us. We just got to be aware and be cautious and get ready because we might “spam” Threads.
I’m also not trying to get on the wrong foot, I’m just in love with Free Software, and seeing Lemmy here and discovering the Fediverse is so amazing to me. I love it already and am going to stay on it for most of my online journey.
Thoughts?
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That article is from July 2023. I’m not sure if there have been any updates from Threads regarding actually making federation a reality.
Personally, I’m in the camp that wants to keep threads the hell away from Lemmy. However, I’m still kinda curious to see how threads would mesh with parts of the fediverse, and lemmy.world seems like a good server to have that experiment because they’re large enough to not get completely overwhelmed.
Sh.itjust.works and Lemm.ee have preemptively defederated Threads, so there are already good options for those of us who don’t want to interact with them.
My understanding is that Threads won’t have a direct impact on Lemmy because out integration with micro-blogging services is… awkward and fairly unidirectional. However, if they make a play for the ActivityPub protocol then we may all be in trouble.