Fediverse profiles are more present on Threads, now.
  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    502·
    22 days ago

    I signed the pledge to not ever federate with them, and unlike the DARE pledges they made us sign in school, I’m taking this one seriously.

    • m_f@midwest.socialEnglish
      131·
      22 days ago

      The advantage of the Fediverse is exactly that, that each instance can decide if they federate or not. The thing that I’m wary of is a renewal of Embrace, extend, and extinguish. I’d like to think that Zuckerberg isn’t going to try playing dirty tricks, but we’ll see what happens if and when Threads ever becomes really successful.

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        41·
        22 days ago

        EEE would require existing Mastodon users moving to threads which I can’t see happening

        • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lolEnglish
          11·
          22 days ago

          EEE would require existing Mastodon users moving to threads

          It would not.

          Meta could implement ActivityPub in Facebook, and there’s your majority population. Imagine a Facebook user “friending” your mastodon account. You follow them back because it’s your mom, and so does basically everyone. Next, Facebook implements Pages to round off the concept of “communities.” Then, Facebook introduces a genuinely useful extension - marketplace. Once a decent clip of people set up shop, trim off any instances that don’t adopt the FriendlyPub fork.

          Bam, EEE.

          • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
            41·
            22 days ago

            Once a decent clip of people set up shop, trim off any instances that don’t adopt the FriendlyPub fork.

            And you’ll be back at square one, as if Facebook hadn’t federated in the first place. Which is essentially how the Fediverse is right now.

        • m_f@midwest.socialEnglish
          3·
          22 days ago

          There’s a lot of shitty things they can do. They could push for changes to ActivityPub that nobody sane wants, confusing everybody that says “We support ActivityPub”, and spread FUD about anyone that doesn’t move to their new shitty version. Similar to how Google pushes through changes to web standards that benefit them, forcing Firefox to implement them too.

          • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
            31·
            22 days ago

            Then it’s up to Mastodon not to bow to the changes. The worst thing that can happen is that we lose federation with Threads again.

      • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        If you and others don’t like Threads to begin with then why would the “extinguish” part ever work? The people who are already here aren’t going to stop just because Threads federates and then later on unfederates.

        • m_f@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          21 days ago

          I won’t use threads, but the Fediverse is relatively small. It would suck if they managed to play dirty tricks and steal a large fraction of current fediverse users.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    331·
    22 days ago

    Threads uses can now “follow” fediverse accounts but “only if they’ve interacted with a post on Threads” and the posts “wont appear in your feeds.”

    Well played, Zuck. Hilarious.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    22 days ago

    BlueSky seems like an obviously better fit. The more corporate interests are protected on and by Lemmy the less interesting it is…

    …and plaves like c/News are already there to mostly protect and defend corporate interests.

      • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        22 days ago

        Part of why Lemmy can federate and why they’re so innovative is because they’re not stored in a traditional server space, instead, theyre run on old Bitcoin graphics cards . Some of which AMD 600 - 1000 series, are supposedly easier to network and run in parallel, so when I talk about AMD Lemmy, I mean using thise parts of Lemmy as a bridge, or network gateway to Threads.

  • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    21 days ago

    A lot of effort to be blocked by most everyone from the fediverse. I don’t want the ads or to be tracked. I also don’t need dumb ass lib takes that come from contributions to capitalist social media. I’ll get the best ones from screenshots here or mastodon tvm.

  • Jared White@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    21 days ago

    The slow drip of fediverse features has been frustrating, but it feels like there’s finally light at the end of the tunnel. It’s been absolutely amazing even having the level of interop we have between Mastodon <-> Threads, and it’s about to get so much better. I feel like a whole lot of people out there who think they’re getting what they need out of Bluesky (news, memes, friends, whatever) would get much the same experience if they were just using the fediverse as ActivityPub intended (aka sign up for a variety of services and wire 'em up!).

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    21 days ago

    Remember: it takes two to tango. Threads might want to federate, but a lot of Fediverse instances want nothing to do with Facebook.