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Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[–] Icaria@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I thought Threads was supposed to be a competitor to twitter? I don't understand how they'd even integrate with Lemmy instances. I'm here to see posts from boards/forums/subs, not from specific people. Would posts from random Threads user profiles start showing up on the main page?

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No. Lemmy integration of ActivityPub doesnt enable that. Either Threads or Lemmy would need to change their implementation of ActivityPub in order for us to see Threads posts. Currently that's impossible. All federation happens beneath the hood and isnt shown.

[–] Icaria@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So what would federating involve, then? How would it change how lemmy.world users see lemmy.world?

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nothing. Currently it would not be visible at all. In the backend however federating means that the Threads servers might - at some point in the future - fetch data from lemmy.world (and not display it either, only let it sit on the server).

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But Meta can already do that through user accounts or through a honeypot/passive instance, correct? All public conversations are open, as are all public user profiles.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

True

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

Well like Mastodon does. It's not exactly a smooth integration. I have no idea how Lemmy posts would show up I'm assuming almost as a separate tweet equivalent.