Should sh.itjust.works preemptively defederate from Threads?

Threads is the not-so-new reddit-like twitter-like public forum platform by Meta, the same commercial company behind internet behemoths like Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. They’re working on ActivityPub integration so that they can bridge (federate?) with the fediverse. As far as I know, the focus is on Mastodon instances, but in the future that could include Lemmy instances too.

Some have raised the question, worried about the future of the fediverse or even claiming that it goes against its definition.

What do you think should be done?

EDIT: correction

EDIT.2: The Vote is on! Go make your voice heard. You have until Friday the 29th.

Fediverse instances’ status on federation with Threads

  • @Console_Modder
    3•6 months ago

    The fun option would be to flood threads with shitposts and make them defederate from us when they start to lose advertisers

    • ZeppoEnglish
      3•6 months ago

      The way Threads works currently from what I understand is that they can send content to other instances, but not receive. Makes it seem even more useless if it’s one-sided.