I don't get the privacy argument against federation with corporate instances. No corporation gets access to any more information when federated than they can get from the API with a simple login. Our privacy protection comes from logging in to instances other than those controlled by corporate interests, not by avoiding sharing our content with them (which we cannot avoid).

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hell even web scraping will get the job done. Defederating from meta is going to be akin to slapping a “meta bad” bumper sticker on and refusing to use Facebook. We aren’t the target audience of Threads, meta doesn’t give a shit about Lemmy or its instances, and defederating won’t impact the Threads experience or product hardly at all. Still, glad we have the option to defederate at all, and exercising that option should be used in this case, imo. Just don’t expect Mark Zucchini to be crawling on all fours begging Lemmy admins to stop because their product is being crippled lol

[–] cerevant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I gather that you can follow a Lemmy thread using mastodon, if awkwardly. I figure it would be what doing it from Threads would be like - definitely not something the average threads user will be interested in. I think the conversation would be more about Threads being a fair player and not making Mastadon a second class citizen, but there is already a planned feature to limit interaction with federated users:

Another unique aspect of Threads that many have been anticipating is the way it can connect to federated social networks like Mastodon (collectively known as the “fediverse”). It seems that Threads may not be ready to launch its fediverse features right away.

Soon, you’ll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, like Mastodon. They can also find you with your full username @username@threads.net.

The only other detail we could uncover about Threads’ integration with the fediverse is that if you choose to restrict replies on a post, it won’t be shared outside of the Threads app.

When you limit replies, your thread will not be shared with your fediverse followers.

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I’ll be very surprised indeed if Threads allows Lemmy posts to appear in the app, since that’s user content they don’t really have control over, in terms of user agreements or policies as far as I know, and I’m sure the last thing Meta wants is a ton of Lemmy users beckoning Threads users to ditch the centralized network of Meta and joint them in the “real” fediverse lol