Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse.
Great.
I joined the Fediverse to escape Facebook’s toxic interpretation of communities, so Facebook is coming to the Fediverse instead.
Just great…Blocking everyone and every community you see from Facebook’s new parasite social media could be good, me thinks.
@Auster@lemm.ee You can just use an instance that is defederated from them, that’s the beauty of the Fediverse
According to https://lemm.ee/instances your instance already blocks them for example
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
can’t you selectively block entire instances? you can in Boost
It’s not just a matter of blocking Threads users.
Facebook is coming on here to slurp up data I don’t want them to have, and enriching their own Threads ecosystem with Fediverse content they haven’t lifted a finger to create.
Not to mention, when Threads users are able to fully interact in the Fediverse, do you really want that particular bunch to create noise in your communities? I don’t. There’s a reason why I avoid Facebook in all its forms.
Uh… this fediverse stuff is all on the public internet. Facebook could be slurping it up just as easily without joining at all.
right but if I block their instance, they can never interact with me and vice versa.
Aw, buddy, cheer up.
Here’s some minions memes doing racist things! I mean, I assume thats what goes on if you’re on facebook.
From the instances I used, it seems to be a mixed bag. Some even allowed for the user to block domains unrelated to the fediverse.
Was commenting more generally, in case there’s someone against Facebook in instances that don’t block them.
And about lemm.ee, although the guy running it is strongly against defederation, I guess Facebook the company is too much even for him. "<.<
There was a vote about it in !meta@lemm.ee : https://lemm.ee/post/851217
I wanted to vote against defederation (edit: i was offline that week or something, I can see I didn’t vote) I liked on this instance that we are treated as adults, and the admin let us decide what we want to see. You can block instances if you want. Defederating with Threads even before we can see how it would work goes against this philosophy.
Afaik there is no way to see anything from threads on lemmy yet, connection with mastodon like services work only, so we are again debating about a not yet existing thing.
If it will work between threads and lemmy I will look for another instance where I can devide what I want to see.
How can we know?
I don’t like this rebranding to “open social web” like it was made for them.
Something that is open and free was, by definition, made for everyone. Even the robber barons you hate.
Boo. Go away Zuck and take your shitty vertical videos with you.
We used to say that people who made vertical videos had Vertical Video Syndrome. It was a terrible time.
Note: You can’t interact with Threads accounts from Lemmy, but you can interact with Threads accounts from MBin (and maybe PieFed), except if your instance is defederated from them obviously
There’s POTUS account for example @potus@threads.net
Why not Lemmy?
Because right now the Threads federation is still pretty one sided, the Fediverse users can reply to the Threads posts, but the Threads users can’t see the Fediverse posts, only replies
And with how Lemmy works, you can’t reply to the microblogging accounts, you can’t reply to Mastodon’s posts neither, so you can’t get your replies federated
That doesn’t seem right. I remember responding to a few mastodon threads from lemmy and I was able to see my reply on the other end.
Why would I want to interact with people on threads? I’m here for the Lemmy community.
Do regular Mastodon instances and clients play nicely with Threads?
I’ve been on Mastodon for a while and never seen a Threads user.
On paper it should play well, it appeared as Mastodon would on my Mbin instance. A lot of Mastodon instances have preemptively defederated from Threads though, so you need to shop around.
Or just don’t federate with threads. Embrace, extend, extinguish is a thing
Yea, they play fine, I use Misskey fork as my main instance, and it even supports quotes
Maybe your instance have defederated from them? Also the Fediverse sharing is opt-in in Threads, so like 95% or more Threads users haven’t turned it on, cause they have no idea it exists
Which fork?
Sharkey, but Threads quotes show up in basic Misskey as well
I tried regular misskey but I can’t read Japanese
Understandable, I can’t neither, that’s why I use English-speaking instance
Do regular Mastodon instances and clients play nicely with Threads?
You can’t connect to Threads using a Mastodon client but you can follow select Threads accounts from the Mastodon instance your client is connected to. Threads is still in what is basically a public beta. That’s why there are currently no ads there either (but they were announced recently).
Currently, 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 took around a year for a solo dev (and a couple contributors) to develop a fully federated platform. Why is it taking one of the largest companies on the planet this long to make such tiny changes that are useless anyway.And why are they releasing it like this instead of releasing everything at once?
Because every step of the way, they need a flock of MBAs to figure out the answer to the question “How do we make money off of this?”
I’m rather guessing the other way around. Because they can’t directly extract money from this, they can’t justify to their shareholders to sit down full-time devs. Instead, this is a project solely run by interns and student.
I’m guessing because they don’t want it to.
I don’t think i’ve ever seen a Threads message in any of my Lemmy / Mastodon feeds. Perhaps I’m not mixing in the right circles?
Your instance likely defederated threads
Threads posts wouldn’t really appear on lemmy unless they deliberately format the post to tag a community. And they wouldn’t be able to see replies either.
Fediverse is not super far from original internet idea with the exception of convenient block feature. Let’s hope that’s enough to prevent the sequel.
I don’t want to see commercial content. I also don’t want others to see it because it will pollute the culture of the Fediverse.
