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A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Same thing we do about reddit. They are free to do their own thing in their own corner as long as they don't bring us into it.

[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I think defederation isn't the solution. Am I dumb in thinking this could actual have a mutual benefit?

Just an example: I will never use Threads, but if I can communicate with them from my Mastodon account, I would like to have that option.

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wouldn't call you dumb, but naive yeah. I don't trust anything facebook does and them trying to get involved here is just another shot at unethical data collection. The content on all their sites is shit and sinpleminded so imo nothing they do should be welcome here.

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[–] Yaxoi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There needs to be a Mozilla-like foundation that builds a competitive product platform for Fediverse that looks slick, is free of bugs, and matches any additional features that Threads might come up with

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[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Don't use it.

[–] linuxgator@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I say we should just let Threads fail through its own doing.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think we should defederate threads. It would only give Meta a walled garden which we will be outside of. Let them embrace us here and encourage everybody to scatter across instances so they can't defederate reasonably

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[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can Lemmy.world go read-only? I think the biggest threat that can actually be handled is a bunch of shitty Facebook users making shitty, angry comments in lemmy.world threads. letting Threads read and display Lemmy.world content, but not comment would solve this.

There are other important threats from Facebook, but this one can actually be solved.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is how to block threads on Mastodon, if anyone has any ideas for how to do it on Lemmy, that'd be great.

https://hachyderm.io/@crowgirl/110663465238573628

[–] Ech@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now? Have a Lemmy account on an instance that defederates anything Threads.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a list of these somewhere?

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[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am kinda curious to see how federating with it would actually work. I.e. what kind of content would actually end up in my "All" view, the usual facebook trash or actually interesting stuff? And would there maybe be interesting communities on it?

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