Mastodon is unusable if you follow Lemmy communities, so no one does.
But that wasn't my question. If a Lemmy instance I am on federates with Threads, how do I find people on Threads, follow them, and have their posts appear in my Lemmy feed? The people who are saying it can be done are not also explaining how it can be done. You seem to be saying, in a roundabout way, that it cannot be done?
There are, thankfully, plenty of instances which allow it.
I was responding to a poster who wants it to not be possible. Because a centralised authority making decisions for all users is good, or something.
There's very little point telling me it is possible without telling me how. I have tried and failed with kBin and I don't even know where to start with Lemmy.
I would like to follow Cory Doctorow's Mastodon account on Lemmy. Could you explain how?
Thanks,
What is there to disagree with? He's describing what looks like a very good system for federation (especially moderation), not telling anyone which way to go.
You're not required to agree with him. But if your disagreement with the headline is stopping you from reading the article, you're missing out. There's some useful ideas described which Fedi-coders would do well to take notice of.
If you think Mike Masnick does not spend enough time on the Fediverse, you do not spend enough time on the Fediverse.
Because that is not a decision Lemmy can make; thousands of different instances running Lemmy can choose to do whatever its admins choose to do.
Because (AFAIK) Lemmy instances cannot federate with Threads anyway.
For anybody looking to avoid ads on Lemmy, it seems like direct federation with Threads is not a good idea currently.
Can Lemmy federate with Threads?
I can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon (but don't because it just fills your feed with an avalanche of out-of-context posts).
I can't follow anyone on Mastodon from Lemmy (and while I think it is, or should be, possible from kBin, that doesn't seem to work well yet).
So how can a Lemmy instance federate with Threads and how would their micro-blog posts turn up on Lemmy?
I'm not remotely bothered by federation on Mastodon because there is no algorithm pushing crap on me there. I'll get what I follow and nothing else.
The Fediverse is not large enough to replace Twitter/Reddit (for breadth and depth of content) and it is unlikely to become large enough any time soon.
Fortunately, Mastodon does not push an algorithmic feed on me so I can follow people I want to hear from on Threads without having to put up with the bullshit that comes from being on Threads.
I recognise that the lack of moderation on Threads means that instances which do federate may be faced with a lot of extra work and not all instances will be up for that, and that's totally fair.
But it would be good if there was at least one instance which allowed access to people on Threads without having to make an account with Meta.
FWIW it's not a coincidence that Threads didn't make federation possible until after they'd found a legal way to launch in the EU. They knew that if they federated first, the Fediverse would get a lot of EU users who would otherwise have joined Threads. I don't think the entire Fediverse should cut itself off from Threads when many of its users might also like access to the feed without the Meta bullshit piled on top.
The sub-editor writes it.
How does it federate in ways that affect users?