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”.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    Please explain how federating with Threads is “supporting Meta” and not the opposite.

    • aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 months ago

      I’m not sure if federating will help meta so much as it will definitely (most probably) hurt the lemmy/mastodon network.

      Here’s a similar case that happened before, with the XMPP protocol being coopted by google but eventually killing it in favor of their own proprietary solution:

      https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

      Big tech isn’t on our side, and we have to handle outside corporate influence with heavy skepticism.