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  • Twitches@lemm.ee
    261·
    4 months ago

    I think if lemmy disappears I’m going to give up on the internet. Basically just use it for the necessary things that I need it for.

  • Unmapped@lemmy.ml
    158·
    4 months ago

    Can someone explain why so many comments saying this is bad and want their instances to block threads? Seems like it would be a good thing to make the fediverse bigger and more accessible.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      4 months ago

      In short, Facebook are incentivised to increase conflict and hate, it improves user engagement. They have also leveraged their large user base to boost numbers in threads significantly. Threads is already a cess pip of bigotry and hate.

      Federating with them would be like connecting your house’s drinking water pipe with the sewage pipe of an industrial pig farm. It would pollute our community to the point of destruction.

      They might try and control this initially. Unfortunately, it would almost certainly be part of an embrace, extend, extinguish attempt. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish ). They play nice till they have control of enough communities, then they stop the controls, to increase profits.

    • wander1236
      12·
      4 months ago

      Threads is owned by Facebook, a company notorious for interacting with the web in bad faith.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    51·
    4 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Threads will now let people like and see replies to their Threads posts that appear on other federated social media platforms, the company announced on Tuesday.

    Previously, if you made a post on Threads that was syndicated to another platform like Mastodon, you wouldn’t be able to see responses to that post while still inside Threads.

    That meant you’d have to bounce back and forth between the platforms to stay up-to-date on replies.

    Thanks to this upgrade, you’ll probably do less of that, but in a screenshot, Meta notes that you can’t reply to replies “yet,” so it sounds like that feature will arrive in the future.

    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also revealed that Threads’ fediverse integration will be available starting today in more than 100 countries, a significant expansion from its initial availability in the US, Canada, and Japan.

    Meta has been vocal about its plans to integrate with the decentralized social networking protocol ActivityPub since launching Threads nearly a year ago, with first testing starting in December.

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