Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net"

If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net".

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[–] FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I got a reason! It's because people are afraid meta is doing what Microsoft did to a much earlier project. The crux of that whole story is that Microsoft adopted the new tech, became the biggest player thus dominating the area, then, when they had full control of the tech they ended up shutting it down. Some people are convinced meta is going to do that to the fediverse.

This is vague and handwavy, I'm hoping someone actually knows the name of the project. It was early 90s I believe or maybe into the early 00s but it was before my time in the tech sphere of the internet.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I don't understand how they would control it

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

just by being the biggest player in the system so all the activity is on their server, then they shut it down and leave the rest of the drivers with a big hole in the community.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 1 year ago

So... we would be back to exactly how we are now?

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