They weighed in months ago back when it was announced and said they were taking a wait and see approach, where if it did cause problems they would defederate, but didn’t want to preemptively do so. Many other instances did defederate already though.
Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads
confusedwiseman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was surprised to see lemmy.world didn’t defederate. I hope it does. And, I hope a mod weighs in on the planned direction for the instance.
Slowy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There is no real need right now. Lemmy is focused on following communities, not individuals. This is more of an issue for Mastodon than Lemmy.
It might never be an issue for Lemmy. Threads would need to start organizing people around communities, or Lemmy would need to encourage people to follow individuals (something Reddit promoted and no one cared about)
Microw@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s actually an argument for defederating atm. Because Lemmy can’t pull Threads content, but Threads can without making that fact public.
Neve8028@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Not sure what you mean. They can already pull any public data on lemmy, as can anyone else.