I don’t understand how ActivityPub works that well and I haven’t used Threads so maybe I just doing get it.
But why would we have to worry about defederating Threads when it’s a Twitter clone? It doesn’t have communities and such so I would think it’s not compatible. We’re not federated with Mastodon instances right? This seems like something for Mastodon to worry about. How is a Lemmy instance refusing to federate with Threads relevant?
If this where to happen, my guess is it’s the same as Mastodon and many other platrforms that are also microblogging!
For example, if you “mention” a community from Mastodon within a post the post will show up on that community. Here’s an example I just posted from Mastodon to Lemmy: https://geddit.social/post/183439
On mastodon, you can subscribe to communities on platforms like Lemmy, the community looks like a user. On that side of things, it just acts like a relay that accepts messages and then sends it out to everyone who is subscribed.
However, your thoughts are on the right track. You don’t really see that many Mastodon users on lemmy.
Do we even know is Threads will federate at all? I figure meta is using activitypub simply because it’s cheaper and easier than coding their own, not because they intend to federate. Zuck wants private data so he can sell us ads and propaganda. Allowing people to follow from federated servers both denies him user data and the ability to push ads.
Federation would also mean that you could use your account from threads to comment or post on Lemmy. So a Threads user links to a Lemmy post, the post could blow up with users who aren’t familiar with the culture here. I think a lot of people aren’t saying it, but they’re worried about their cool, new favorite platform getting swamped with “normies.”
I don’t care about normies as much as I care about their racist uncles blowing up in the comments with lies and thinky veiled conspircies about non white people.
We are federated with mastodon instances. Beauty of the fediverse
