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Threads Enables Fediverse Replies (blog.karliner.net)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Last night Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, quitely announced the next step in the integration of Threads into the Fediverse. In addition to being able to follow Threads accounts from Fediverse/Mastodon accounts, we can now reply to and like Threads posts. Threads are taking a quiet, incremental approach to Federation, but seem genuinely commited.

From About Threads and the fediverse

If you turn on sharing to the fediverse, users on other servers can search for and follow your profile, view your posts, interact with your content, and share your content to anyone on or off their server. On Threads, you’ll be able to see the number of users on other servers who liked your post. You'll also be able to see and like their replies to your post.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So they can reply to this:

Get the fuck out.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck Meta. God damn cancer on society.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Please fediblock.

There are 200 mil. Threads users, and 10 mil. in the fediverse. Meta has been unable to meet basic federation assurances, is unable to guarantee moderation, is unable to detect and remove bots reliably, unable to guarantee basic user protections, unable to reliably detect and remove actions like doxxing, harassment, stalking, ban evasion, brigading, etc. etc.

Federating with threads means giving up on these basic protections for users and being overrun with threads users. When there is ONE instance that serves 95% of the users, federation has failed. What happens when Meta engineers start submitting pull requests to the AP protocol? What happens when they fork it to add their own "features?"

Federating with Threads is bad for the present and the future of the fediverse. We need to see more government organizations, universities, and journalists joining and spinning up instances. I want to see @[email protected], @[email protected], and @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Well put. Even if we assumed Facebook had the best of intentions - which they damn well don't - it needs to be pointed out that other servers get defederated for far, far, far less than what they allow to happen on their platforms. Their moderation is abhorrent, which makes it outright unsafe to federate with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Threads.net federation status on major Lemmy instances:

Also, in memoriam:

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Embrace, extend, extinguish. Irc ( slack ), jabber ( google talk, facebook messages, hip chat), Usenet and Google groups. Just to name few. Threads should be banned everywhere in fediverse

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

According to another report:

Threads users can like the replies from other servers, but they can't yet reply to them, as the feature is still in beta and under development.

It's like they're trying to find out how slowly they can go while still convincing enough people that they're going to get there some day.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Actually, I guess they're carefully probing to find out exactly what level of freedom they can give their users before they start losing people to the real fediverse. As soon as they find it they'll make things just slightly worse than that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Really explains the state of the world where even on Lemmy you have people coming in to fight for big businesses invading our people spaces.

Our species is fucked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

People not wanting to inconvenience themselves to battle climate change or the micro plastics issue wasn't a hint enough already?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

please google "dustin carmack" and then fediblock threads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck the Heritage Foundation.