Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 6 months agoWhat your Lemmy feed looks like is 90% up to you. Subscribe to things that you find interesting and block what you don’t want to see.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
That’s a great solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Shouldn’t exist? Why? Ofcourse it exists and it’s not even a problem. People just are different and have different interests. It’s up to the individual to choose what they want to pay attention to and what not.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I have to guess you are too young to know the lengthy and detailed history of the anti-consumer and anti-privacy activities of Facebook/Meta over the past decades. (And if you aren’t, you haven’t been paying attention)
There is no corporate entity in the tech space that I can think of that has so thoroughly proven time and time again that they will bend or break every rule if it makes more dollars for them. (I say this despite the existence of Microsoft.) Their users are literally nothing but statistics and a data/income stream for them. It’s not (mostly) about who uses Threads, it’s about Meta. If the fediverse can be fucked over and enshittified (and it most certainly can), Meta will be the one to figure out how, and do it.
rbits@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That’s a bit of an exaggeration. I don’t think it will affect Lemmy at all, since it’s a different type of posts. But in terms of Mastodon, it means a whole lot more content for Mastodon users, and a whole lot more people to follow. And also means that people can move to Mastodon while still having the audience that Threads provides.
Of course if you think that the downsides are worse than the upsides, then that doesn’t really matter. But don’t say there are NO upsides.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That’s not at all what I’m talking about.
There’s a reason you can subscribe to commmunities you’re interested in and block the ones you’re not. It’s so that you can curate your feed to reflect your personal interests which vary between individuals.
When it comes to what you’re talking about; you’re free to block threads.net instance yourself or you can choose an instance that does it for you. They’re getting access to your your lemmy content either way.