The admin of lemmy.world, @ruud@lemmy.world has voiced on Mastodon.world that we are not going to defederate from Threads just yet. He wants to “wait and see”, which of course offers mixed feelings from folks.
It’s worth noting that Individuals can block a domain if they see fit.
So if your server admin is not willing to defederate from threads.net, you can do it yourself for your account.
I thought Lemmy didn’t have this feature yet. Can’t we only block individual communities right now unless we are an admin?
How do Lemmy.world users feel about the content they make being displayed next to ads on Threads? If that’s the only bad thing Threads does, then it would be a best case scenario. Would Lemmy.world users be ok with Facebook monetizing the content they make on Lemmy.world?
Thank God, I was starting to miss drama since getting off of Reddit
Good news is that if lemmy.world doesn’t choose to defed Threads, all you have to do is migrate to another instance which does! One of the better benefits of this over Reddit.
ml is the Tankies instance. So I’d personally avoid that one. I’ll keep an eye on lemm.ee though.
I thought lemmygrad.ml was the tankies.
Correct. ml is more tank-ish.
Lemmy.ml is run by tankies who allow a lot more of that than they should. Not that it’s full of them.
A lot of lemmy’s content is on Lemmy.world, but I probably would stop using it.
Admins preemptively defederating Threads has a very middle school feel to it.
I don’t think this is just to spite Meta, they’re known for tracking everything under the sun and there are serious security concerns about what info they may acquire if you unwittingly interact with a post on Threads from another server.
Maybe a stupid question, but I’m a noob so bear with me.
I mean…can’t they already scrub our comments and gain information from them? It’s not as if places like lemmy.world. They are publicly viewable to anyone…you don’t even need an account.
I’m no cybersecurity expert but there is definitely more info involved with posting to Threads. I might be able to get a little info on you from looking at your comment but I can’t tell things like your IP address. If you commented to my server though I absolutely could.
No, you couldn’t. Why are you spreading misinformation? You are posting to your instance, and that’s federated to Threads. Threads isn’t getting any information about you that isn’t publicly available.
To some degree I’m less concerned with them tracking/gathering info and more with their lax moderation allowing for all manner of hateful content to spread. Imo they’re not that far removed from instances like exploding heads or the like.
They’re the same folks that have enabled the spread of genocidal rhetoric, attempts to subvert democracy (not only via Facebook but through WhatsApp use as well (and not just in the United States, see also Brazil)), and probably more I’m not thinking of.
Has anyone seen any posts from them? Do they ruining our federation or violating server rules yet? We can defederate them anytime if they would start spamming or being rude to our community members.
