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

  • PikaEnglish
    54·
    1 year ago

    My concerns have mostly been voiced already. EEE is a very valid strat used by larger companies. Additionally, I am super concerned that integrating will cause a flood effect and drown out and replace the existing communities. Just look at what happend with Reddit’s purge for a good example, while I wasn’t here prior, everyone I’ve chatted with who was has stated it annihilated a lot of the existing ideology that existed prior to the exodus.