A community index of servers added a new rule recently, that requires every participant to defederate from Threads. Some admins are unhappy.

Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.

  • GhostalmediaEnglish
    -4•1 year ago

    Every time something like this gets posted, there are always Lemmy users crying to defederate their Lemmy instances.

    But remember, the current concern is with Mastodon, NOT Lemmy. Lemmy can’t actually view the post types that Masto and Threads make. Wendy’s can post all the Threads ads they want - we’re not going to see them here. We can’t. That hasn’t been built.

    Try it. Go view someone’s Mastodon account in Lemmy. You don’t see their posts.

    • livus
      4•1 year ago

      @Ghostalmedia

      we’re not going to see them here. We can’t. That hasn’t been built.

      It has been partially built insofar as Kbin and Mbin can see Mastodon posts here and Mastodon interacts with us. Wouldn’t surprise me if Lemmy eventually gets some of that functionality too.

      If Meta starts to EEE ActivityPub that will affect all of us.

      • Joël de Bruijn
        2•1 year ago

        To illustrate even more: I follow a Lemmy privacy “group” with an Akkoma account.

    • CrisEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I post stuff on lemmy via my mastodon account so I don’t have to deal with image hosting on my lemmy instance, so its not quite that simple. You’re not wrong, but they do interact

    • SemperverusEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      It’s not us seeing Threads that’s the problem, it’s Threads seeing us (and thereby trapping all of us in their sticky web we tried to escape, what with their shadow profiles and whatnot).

      • Hildegarde
        1•1 year ago

        So what would stop them from shadow profiling you by scraping content, or using a different domain? Most lemmy instances are configured to federate with a blocklist, meaning any unblocked instance can download data. Facebook can just make an instance under a different domain and download the data that way. Or they can just scrape user data from the web facing interface.

        Posts and comments on lemmy are public. If facebook wants your publicly accessible data from the fediverse, de-federating from threads isn’t going to stop them.