Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon

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• housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, Threads can do all it wants. I’ve set a preemptive block. I want nothing to do with Threads. Of course, I cannot control what other instances decide to federate and get my content that way. But I won’t make it easy for them.

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  • Moogosa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What steps did you take to preemptively block it? I want nothing to do with Threads either but am a bit confused on what I should be doing.

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    • housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I run my own instance so I simply added a block in the instance configuration. If I had to hazard a guess, I would say the folks at lemmy.world have most likely done the same.

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• BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s the first time I’ve seen Lemmy mentioned in an article from a respectable tech outlet. Exciting! Gotta respect Ars.

  But also, muck feta.

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  • MostlyGibberish@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ars Technica seems to really be embracing the fediverse. They have a very active official Mastodon account. mastodon.social/@arstechnica

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• andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I appreciate that the article mentioned that Threads isn’t federated and these claims often never materialize, because I feel like this is the most important fact, and it’s barely discussed.

  Threads is not federated. There’s nothing to defederate from, and it’s unclear if there ever will be.

  All the benefits of embracing activitypub are provided by announcing adoption, and all the downsides only materialize by actually doing the hard part. Based on experience and logic I think federation will happen far, far in the future if ever.

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• minkshaman@lemmy.perthchat.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m incredibly surprised that Wired (the original source) didn’t mention that there’s precedent for the fediverse’s concerns in Gchat/XAMPP

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  • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because there aren’t. That was a dumb blog post.

    If Google Talk never supported XMPP it still would have had millions of users and XMPP would have died years earlier. That wasn’t EEE, that was Google keeping an open protocol alive for a while until they decided not to.

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