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

  • @sbvEnglish
    2•5 months ago

    Unless we get access to internal documents from Meta, we can only guess at their reasoning.

    As such, their goal shouldn’t directly factor into our decision. If federating with Threads is good for our community, we should do it. If it’s bad, we should either not do it, or defederate.

    • @pelespirit
      3•5 months ago

      I still haven’t seen any reasons anyone thought were positive besides more people.

      • @sbvEnglish
        3•5 months ago

        More people is pretty significant. AFAIU the Lemmy monthly user base is in slow decline.

        At this point, most of my Everywhere feed is bots with occasional posts from people. A minority of posts have comments. I see the same few dozen users commenting on stories.

        Granted, that’s an effect of the instances my host pulls from, but it seems like a bad sign.

        You could make the argument that Threads users might have different interests, but (IMO) that’s secondary to the lack of organic content.

        • @pelespirit
          2•5 months ago

          It’s not in serious decline though, I don’t know what numbers you’re talking about. Also, Meta lost 80% in their first month, which I think would make them 20 million users. I looked the other day to find actual numbers, they must be super low because I couldn’t find any, zilch, nada that were current. We’re at around 1.5 million, we’re doing fine. Next reddit fuck-up will probably double it. We honestly couldn’t handle too much more anyway plus threads doesn’t provide us any with content, we’re the zoo.