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

  • Barbarian
    33·
    11 months ago

    I was thinking about this some more, and now I think this entire conversation and vote is entirely irrelevant. Not just not worth having, but actually completely makes no difference.

    A big company like Meta is gonna want to control what content is on it. Which means they’re almost certainly not going to use a blacklist model, they’re going to use a whitelist. This allows them to carefully control who they’re federated with.

    Their federation list will likely be a who’s who of big influential mastodon servers, maybe some pixelfed servers. They probably don’t even know that Lemmy exists, let alone the 8th largest instance. If/when they realize Lemmy is a thing in a few years, they might approach lemmy.world and/or lemm.ee.

    All of this to say, I don’t think this vote matters.