Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time

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• deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know there’s a ton of skepticism about Meta entering the fediverse — it’s completely understandable,” Cottle says. “I do want to kind of make a plea that I think everyone on the team has really good intentions. We really want to be a good member of the community and give people the ability to experience what the fediverse is.”

  Your intentions mean exactly nothing when you’re being paid by Zuckerberg.

  It also doesn’t actually matter what you intend, because the problem isn’t just what the platform can do, it’s about Meta being in this space and trying to stake a claim in it. We came here to escape you. Go the fuck away.

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  • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right? I don’t care what their intentions are, if they continue to house hate groups, their “intentions” count for exactly nothing

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Their intentions don’t matter. Meta’s only intention is make line go up. They will either consume or extinguish the fediverse with the rest of the corps. I’ll be leaving lemmy.world the minute thread federates. I’m just gonna be a lazy ass until then.

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    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought I understood lemmy.world’s position several months ago was to not federate with Threads. This was the vocal position of many instances. Has this changed?

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  • rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t get these people. They knowingly chose to work for Meta after everything that company’s done. You don’t get to pretend you’re the good guy anymore.

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    • HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      At a very desperate time in my life I worked for Comcast. Everytime something bad happens to me now I know I deserve it and that it is karma coming back to me.

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  • Delusion6903@discuss.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not a fan of Meta and I don’t want to join Threads. But there may be some people over there I would like to follow. At least on Mastodon, we can block any instance we choose to manually. I hate when instances make the decision for me.

    Defederation should be a last resort when there are so many options here for people to tailor their own feeds.

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  • UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe the engineering team has good intentions, but Zuck and his Fucks surely don’t.

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Defederate.

  They can have a corporate silo. They can use an open standard. But they cannot do anything good for the fediverse. The best thing for the fediverse is to let them exist as a walled garden (and we can put up the wall).

  There are about 10 million users on the free fediverse. That number has grown steadily and sustainably. There are 160 million threads users. They were instantaneously leveraged onto the platform by a billion dollar corporation (possibly in violation of antitrust laws).

  If we federate, Threads won’t become a part of the fediverse; threads will become the fediverse.

  EEE

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  • spez_@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m deleting my Lemmy account because it’s just

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    • nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      hey guys have you seen Candlejack he was right

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  • squid_slime@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True that. I will make a spam not that shall post meta decent

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ill move to server that has defederated meta completely

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  • VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can find servers based on Threads defederation through this site. Since you don’t want anything to do with Threads, I suggest filtering by ‘blocked’ and ‘Fedipact’ I’m not sure what the difference is between the two is though, so I’d appreciate if someone would explain.

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    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      theres also https://defed.xyz/

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t really care about that, but given that defederation with particular instances is a good way to get a feel for what content and instance allows/disallows, it’d be nice to be able to filter instances on lemmyverse.net and lemmy.fediverse.observer and kbin.fediverse.observer by whether an instance is defederated or not with some list of other instances. Like, maybe you want an instance that federates with instances peoviding pornography (lemmynsfw.com) but not extremist political positions (hexbear.net). Right now, it’s a very manual process to check the federation list.

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    • starman@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not sure what the difference is between the two is though, so I’d appreciate if someone would explain.

      Looks like to be part of the fedipact you have to sign this: fedipact.online

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I signed the fedipact yet mine isn’t listed there, at least it says “blocked”.

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    • lemmeout@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How does one “move” to a different instance? Or do I have to make a new account and start over?

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was thinking about joining one that’s federated with them. I’d get a look at the normal side of the internet, what’s going on there without having to join I forgot what’s it called.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah that is a positive for them as they will harvest the data on that server, so that is a no for me.

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• ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck letting the Zuckin billionaire into this party! Build your own shit communities with your own shitty user base

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• rotmulaaginskyrim@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t mind the threads integration much actually.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The idea that they will destroy it by just… Being a bigger instance? Because they can influence development? Isn’t this shit developed by a tanky? A self-proclaimed stalinist? Why the hell would they capitulate to a megacorp? I’m more worried about the actual developers to ruin this shit than Meta and Threads.

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even if you aren’t against federating with threads on principle part of the challenge is going to be able to keep up with moderating their entire user base en-masse and being able to afford the cost of federating content from so many users at once.

      It’s a burden I doubt a lot of smaller instances can handle.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mostly agree. The one thing I will say in favour of defederation is hate content. Meta has incredibly lax moderation. People can literally say “this person deserves to be killed”, or even “I would absolutely murder this person if I came across them” and Meta will be like “yeah we understand this may be disappointing to you, but we’re gonna allow that to stay” if you report it.

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    • Omniraptor@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, by being a bigger instance with piss poor moderation. We’d be overrun with trolls and spammers

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  • DingoBilly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I don’t understand the issue.

    People want the fediverse to grow, so FB entering it is a good thing no? Otherwise realistically the fediverse will likely stagnate and always just take up a tiny bit of space.

    The more people involved the better. Sometimes I feel this group just wants to shoot themselves in the foot.

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    • Zink@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I DON’T want the fediverse to grow if that growth is full of extremists, hate groups, porn bots, etc.

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    • rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The issue is that Meta’s intention is to extinguish the fediverse, not to add to it. I can’t believe people are still falling for this tactic.

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  • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was kind of hoping the hysteria would be over by now. Walled gardens are a bad thing, I'm pleased when holes are poked in them.

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    • narp@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Hysteria”, that’s one way to belittle people.

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  • spiderman@ani.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah if threads integration means that i could interact with my friends threads posts with mastodon account i don’t mind it. it’s not like they are gonna use mastodon. maybe there might be a chance that people on threads might visit mastodon once they are fed up with spams on threads.

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    • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The chance is higher that threads will add some features mastodon doesn’t support and then people will leave mastodon for threads.

      embrace extend extinguish

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• ThePancake@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  <sigh> I’ll miss my cozy little Lemmy…

  The upsides are apparent for the platform, but there’s no denying that change will be inevitable for all of us, whether some instances choose to defederate or not.

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  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What 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.

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    • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a great solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist.

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• mtchristo@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  With about a thousand new daily sign ups to mastodon it feels like it is going back to its rapid degrowth that it has been on before the Twitter debacle.

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