Well like Mastodon does. It’s not exactly a smooth integration. I have no idea how Lemmy posts would show up I’m assuming almost as a separate tweet equivalent.
Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads
Icaria@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I thought Threads was supposed to be a competitor to twitter? I don’t understand how they’d even integrate with Lemmy instances. I’m here to see posts from boards/forums/subs, not from specific people. Would posts from random Threads user profiles start showing up on the main page?
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Microw@lemm.ee 6 months ago
No. Lemmy integration of ActivityPub doesnt enable that. Either Threads or Lemmy would need to change their implementation of ActivityPub in order for us to see Threads posts. Currently that’s impossible. All federation happens beneath the hood and isnt shown.
Icaria@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So what would federating involve, then? How would it change how lemmy.world users see lemmy.world?
Microw@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Nothing. Currently it would not be visible at all. In the backend however federating means that the Threads servers might - at some point in the future - fetch data from lemmy.world (and not display it either, only let it sit on the server).
overzeetop@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But Meta can already do that through user accounts or through a honeypot/passive instance, correct? All public conversations are open, as are all public user profiles.