Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you’re a server admin, please defederate Meta’s domain “threads.net

If you don’t run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate “threads.net”.

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    11 months ago

    Not quite the same result. Blocking the instance stops you seeing their posts, but not the comments coming from their users.

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      11 months ago

      No, that’s just Lemmy. On Masto it blocks all interactions from users (including prohibiting them from following you and therefore fetching your posts).

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        11 months ago

        Fair. But I’m on lemmy for discussion. I don’t want threads’ bobbleheaded userbase fucking up every discussion thread on lemmy. So I will stay on instances that have de-federated that shithole and urge other instances to do the same.

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          But they won’t. Seeing how little even the relatively federation-conscious Mastodonians interact with Lemmy, from Threads it will be close to zero (especially since the devs are very “careful” with federation and probably won’t display article-formatted posts anytime soon).

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            11 months ago

            I’m not comfortable with assuming the dregs of Facebook will leave Lemmy alone. I’ll stick to instances that have defederated and I’ll actively block instances that don’t.

            I’m not out here trying to stop you from being on federated instances or anyone else. But I will not personally support instances that allow that monster into the ecosystem.

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              You know that if you actively blocked the instances that are federated with Threads you wouldn’t have seen this post, right (lemmy.world/instances)? I’m also only active on instances that block Threads, but blocking those who don’t is an excessive measure.

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                11 months ago

                Like I said, I don’t care what others do. But for me the correct answer is to not interact with users from that platform.

                When I start seeing threads users in .world lemmy comment sections I will block .world.

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                  11 months ago

                  That’s not how federation works. If you’re on an instance that doesn’t allow Threads, you won’t see them at all, even when viewing posts coming from other instances.

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                    11 months ago

                    I am given to understand that I will still see the comments from threads users on lemmy. Just not the posts from threads.

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        11 months ago

        We are on lemmy. So they are right in this context. I really couldn’t give a crap about anything like Twitter because I hate everything about that type of medium.

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          The thing is, you don’t really see anything from the Microblogging Fediverse around here at all, do you, so why would you from Threads? And Meta will only explicitly collect your data if you follow one of their accounts, which is impossible from Lemmy. So in a Lemmy context it is quite irrelevant.