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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[–] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 106 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (15 children)

please take a look at the replies under zuck's own post in threads.net and determine if that's the type of content you want.

for those who don't want to visit, majority of the commentators are bots. some advertising crypto, and others asking for money.

even if you think you can individually block those accounts, keep in mind the size of threads compared to fediverse.
for Lemmy: monthly active users are barely ~~150K~~40K, while for threads it's 100 million. there's no chance you can control that inflow of bots.

and if it still doesn't convince you, you can read threads' privacy policy, which states that they'll gather all that pii if you interact with their content.

most of the internet is already bigtech, I don't want Lemmy to become another arm of it. though I have faith in my instance maintainer and dessalines, the dev.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Even if there were no bots and it was only "real" content from Threads ... is that the sort of content we want to have Lemmy flooded with?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

This is dumb gatekeeping nonsense. It's the exact same asshole bullshit behaviour we saw on Reddit when people complained about it getting popular.

Reddit is far better for reaching a wide audience then it was when it was just a bunch of 20 something nerds in their echo chamber.

[–] sour@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

they arent wrong

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah they are.

[–] sour@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

how do you know

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