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

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
    102·
    1 year ago

    Defederation is meaningless, what matters is the dev side. Federating doesn’t give them anything they couldn’t get other ways for slightly more effort. The problems come if you allow contributions the greater community doesn’t want to the code itself.

    • your@sh.itjust.works
      92·
      1 year ago

      My bigger concern is content being overwhelmed by a flood of accounts that have a different online culture from what has grown and is still developing here.

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m less concerned about the culture aspect, but there’s probably some room to improve how federation works at a technical level so smaller instances aren’t crushed if someone subscribes to large communities.

        • your@sh.itjust.works
          22·
          1 year ago

          This feels like an uninformed take. Have you interacted with people on Mastodon via a Lemmy instance? They’re clueless about the fact that they are replying to a forum post or that there’s more than one thread of the conversation going on that most people can see and interact with. The conversations tend to be awkward.